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Juvenile  Instructor 


VOL.53 


APRIL,    1918 


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Let's  Get  The  War  Over! 


It's  up  to  America  to  finish  what  Germany  started.  It's  up  to  us  to  put 
the  final  quietus  on  the  monster  of  Prussianism. 

How  are  we  going  to  do  it? 

Not  by  exhibiting  our  patriotism  to  each  other — not  by  waving  the 
Stars  and  Stripes  at  each  other — not  by  singing  "America"  at  each  other. 

But  by  showing  our  patriotic  determination  to  Germany,  by  floating 
our  flag  at  the  battle  lines,  by  singing  "The  Battle  Cry  of  Freedom"  over  the 
trenches — emphasized  by  the  convincing  logic  of  straight  shooting  gunners. 

Let's  Get  The  War  Over ! 

That's  what  we  and  our  Allies  all  want,  down  to  every  man,  woman 
and  child.  We  are  sickened  of  war's  brutality  and  bloodshed.  We  are 
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But  we  can't  end  this  war  by  ceasing  to  fight.  We  cannot  bring  peace 
by  wishing  for  it.  We  cannot  get  the  war  over  by  debate,  discussion,  and 
personal  axe-grinding. 

Let's  Get  The  War  Over ! 


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CONTENTS 


MISCELLANEOUS 

The   Liahona   Frontispiece 

Tlie  Horses  (A  Poem ) .  AVilliam  F.  Kirk  169 

'I'heir  Easter  Morning.  ..  Elsie   C.  Carroll  171 

The  April  Fool   (A  Poem).. Annie  Malin  174 

Our  War   Garden ....  Clara   S.   Fagergren  175 

True   Pioneer   Stories  ....  Flora  B.  Home  178 

Letter  from   a   Japanese   Convert 

Tamano     Kumagai  180 

Rubbing  It  In  (A  Poem)  ..  Mary  F.  Kelly  180 
Sunday  School  at  Sapporo,  Japan  (Group 

Picture)     181 

Sunday  School  at  Gavle.  Sweden   (Group 

Picture)     183 

Sentiments   for   Mothers'    Day 188 

EDITORIAL   THOUGHTS 

1 1  umane    Day    182 

John    St.   John 183 

Topics  of  the  Times.  Franklin  S.  Richards  184 

SUNDAY    SCHOOL    WORK 


Superintendents'  Department  —  Sacra- 
ment Gem  and  Concert  Recitation  for 
May — Program   for   Mothers'   Day 

Choristers  and  Organists'  Department — 
'Work   for   May — M  rching  and   March 


189 


Playing   in    the    Sunday   School 190 

Teacher-Training  Department — Work  for 
June     192 

Parents'  Department — Special  Announce- 
ment— Lessons    for   June 193 

Theological  Department — Second  and 
Fourth   Year   Lessons  for  May 196 

Second  Intermediate  Department — Sec- 
ond and  Fourth  Year  Lessons  for  June     200 

First  Intermediate  Department — Second 
and  Fourth  Year  Lessons  for  June 202 

Primary  Department — Second  Year  Les- 
sons for  May ! '     208 

Kindergarten  Department — Second  Year 
Lessons  for  May  and  June — M,other  (A 
Song) — Lehi  and  his  Family  in  the  Wil- 
nerness   (Picture)    209 

CHILDREN'S    SECTION 

The  Gleam  of  the  Silver  Star 

Annie    Malin  212 

A  Wise  Dog   216 

Glad  Tidings.  ...  Minnie  Iverson  Hodapp  216 

Crocheting S.    A.    Rintoul  217 

Big  House  and  Little   House  Stories....  218 

The    Children's    Budget    Box 219 

The   Puzzle   Page    221 

Dear   Little    Sheila 222 

The   Funny   Bone 224 


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The  Horses 

They  cheered  for  the  soldiers  in  bristling  review, 

With  their  buttons  and  knapsacks  and  guns  ; 
There  were  wives  who  postponed  the  last  cheerful  adieu 

And  mothers  who  wept  for  their  sons. 
There  were  kisses  and  cheers  for  the  brave  volunteers 

And  praise  from  the  flag-waving  throng, 
But  who  in  the  groups  cheered  the  four-legged  troops  ? 

For  the  horses  were  going  along. 

Oh,  yes,  for  the  horses  were  going  along. 

And  proudly  they  pranced  in  review, 
The  high-stepping  bay  and  the  roan  and  the  gray, 

Their  bridles  all  shiny  and  new. 
They  didn't  know  when  they  would  charge  with  the  men, 

Or  what  they  were  hurrying  for. 
They  didn't  know  why  they  were  hearing  "Good-by !" 

But  the  horses  were  going  to  war. 

No  epaulets  gleamed  on  the  trappings  they  wore, 

Each  horse  ranked  as  high  as  the  rest ; 
But  true  to  the  trust  of  the  soldier  he  bore, 

Each  charger  was  giving  his  best. 
True  friends  to  the  mortals  who  watched  them  go  by. 

Light-stepping  and  willing  and  strong. 
Their  hearts  beating  proudly,  their  heads  carried  high, 

The  horses  were  going  along. 

— JVilliaiu  F.  Kirk,  in  New  York  Journal. 


The  Liahona 


By   L.    A.    Ramsay. 


ORGAN  OF  THE  DESERET  SUNDAY  SCHOOL  UNION 


\'oL.  53 


APRIL,    1918 
Their  Easter  Morning 

By  Elsie  C.  Carroll 


No.  4 


It  was  a  rainy  April  afternoon. 
James  Kenwood  returned  from  his 
day's  work  to  find  his  three  little  girls, 
Marie,  eight,  Elizabeth,  six,  and  Dor- 
othy, three,  alone  in  the  littered  liv- 
ing room  looking  disconsolately  out 
on  the  uninviting  landscape.  They 
rushed  to  him  with  glad  cries. 

"Where  is  mother?"  he  asked. 

"Up  in  her  room,"  Marie  answered 
in  a  subdued  tone,  and  little  Dorothy 
volunteered, 

"Mama's  worser.  She  ist  cries  an' 
gets  more  headaches."  The  man  had 
sunk  with  a  weary  sigh  into  an  un- 
dusted  chair  and  the  three  little  girls 
crowded  upon  his  knees.  He  patted 
each  frowsy  head  with  tender  sym- 
pathy as  his  eyes  scanned  the  untidy 
rooms  that  used  always  to  be  so  im- 
maculately clean,  and  turned  back  to 
the  neglected  children  who  used  to  re- 
ceive such  excellent  care.  He  real- 
ized that  something  must  bring  a 
change.  Their  home  had  been  shat- 
tered a  month  ago  by  the  death  of 
their  beautiful  baby  boy.  The  mother 
had  been  heart-broken  and  had  aban- 
doned herself  to  her  grief,  seeming  to 
lose  all  interest  in  everything  else. 
The  husband,  crushed   with   his   own 


sorrow,  had  been  very  patient  and 
sympathetic,  thinking  that  as  time 
healed  the  wound  the  mother  would 
become  her  normal  self  again.  Once 
or  twice  he  had  tried  gently  to  re- 
monstrate with  her,  trying  to  show 
her  how  she  was  injuring  her  own 
health  by  her  grief,  but  each  attempt 
had  only  seemed  to  aggravate  her 
suffering. 

He  wondered  with  a  sense  of  re- 
sentment how  she  could  so  neglect 
the  children,  and  decided  that  her  eyes 
must  be  opened  even  if  it  were  nec- 
essary to  hurt  her  to  accomplish  it. 
It  was  impossible  for  them  to  go  on 
living  like  this. 

"I's  hungry,"  complained  Doroth\-. 

"What  did  you  have  for  lunch  ?" 
the  father  asked,  turning  to  Marie. 

"Mama  told  us  to  get  something 
from  the  pantry.  We  had  some  fried 
eggs  and  cold  pudding." 

The  father  rose  to  his  feet  reso- 
lutely. 

"You  girlies  pick  up  your  ])1ay- 
things,"  he  directed,  gently,  "and  then 
wash  your  faces  and  hands.  We'll 
have  supper  soon."  He  went  up  to 
his  wife's  room.  Quietly  he  opened 
the   door. 


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The  wuinan  was  huddled  in  a  chair 
beside  the  bed  upon  which  was  spread 
out  various  dear,  familiar  articles  of 
their  baby's  clothing.  The  sight 
wrenched  the  man's  heart.  A  quick- 
mist  blinded  him  and  his  throat  con- 
tracted. He  felt  his  resolution  slip- 
ping away  as  his  wife  lifted  her  sad, 
white  face. 

He  stooped  and  gently  kissed  her, 
while  he  reached  for  her  hand,  which 
held  a  tiny,  half-worn  little  shoe.  She 
leaned  her  head  on  his  bosom  and 
burst  into  a  fresh  outburst  of  weeping. 

"Oh,  James  H — I  can't — endure 
it,"  she  sobbed.  "Mabel  Allen  called 
this — morn-ing  with — her — baby.  He 
is  just  the — age  of — little — Benny 
and — it  brought  it  all  back.  Oh,  why 
did  the — Lord — take  him  away?" 

With  one  hand  the  man  pressed  the 
fingers  that  held  the  little  shoe  while 
with  the  other  he  patted  her  as  one 
mechanically  soothes  a  sobbing  child. 

"I  know,  dear,  it  is  very  hard,"  he 
began,  his  own  voice  a  little  choked, 
"but  it  is  something  nearly  every  one 
has  to  bear.  We  must  try  to  be  brave. 
We  still  have  much  to  be  thankful 
for ;  much  to  live  for  and  to  make  us 
happy." 

"Happy !  Oh,  James,  how  can  you 
talk  of  ever  being  happy  with  our 
baby  gone?  Oh,  you  don't  know 
what  it  is.  You  are  not  a  mother  or 
you  could  not  forget  him  in  a  few 
weeks  and  think  of  being  happy.  I 
can  just  see  him  every  minute  and  all 
his  dear  little  ways.  I  dream  of  hold- 
ing him  in  my  arms  and  wake  up  to 
find  that  he  is  gone  and  that  I'll  never 
hold  him  any  more.  Oh,  James — 
James,  I  can't — bear  it."  The  man 
steeled  himself  to  his  resolve. 

"Marie,  it  isn't  right  for  you  to 
grieve  like  this."  He  spoke  gently 
but  firmly.  "God  took  our  baby  away 
from  us  and  God  is  taking  care  of  him. 
But  he  left  us  three  other  beautiful 
children  to  be  a  comfort  to  us,  and 
for  us  to  care  for.  Do  you  think  it 
is  right  to  shut  yourself  away  from  the 
many  treasures  you  still  have,  to  brood 


over  the  one  which  ha.s  been  taken 
away  for  a  little  while?  Can't  you 
see,  dear,  how  unjust  and  unreason- 
able it  is  ?"  The  woman  sprang  to 
her  feet  and  began  to  pace  the  floor. 

"I  tell  you  you  can't  understand 
what  a  mother  suffers,"  she  broke  out 
hysterically,  "or  you  wouldn't  talk 
to  me  like  this.  You  are  cold  and 
hard.  If  you  came  only  to  scold  me. 
I  would  rather  be  left  alone."  She 
threw  herself  upon  the  bed  and  burst 
into  a  paroxysm  of  weeping.  The 
husband  arose  despondently.  He 
could  see  that  she  was  in  such  a  ner- 
vous state  that  all  he  might  say  would 
only  aggravate  the  condition  he  had 
hoped  to  remedy,  so  he  turned  to  the 
door. 

"Marie,  I  didn't  mean  to  hurt  you. 
I  am  only  interested  in  your  good  and 
that  of  the  children."  She  did  not 
answer  him,  so  he  quietly  left  the 
room  and  went  down  to  the  little  girls. 

It  was  Saturday,  but  none  of  the 
usual  Saturday's  cleaning  had  been 
done,  and  there  was  nothing  prepared 
for  supper. 

He  left  the  little  ones  trying  to  tidy 
up  the  kitchen  while  he  went  to  the 
grocery  store  for  something  to  eat. 

"Oh,  Daddy,"  Marie  had  called,  as 
he  was  leaving,  "Lillie  Bergner  passed 
a  little  while  ago  with  some  eggs.  She 
says  tomorrow  is  Easter.  Will  you 
get  us  some  eggs?  Maybe — maybe 
Mama  will  color  them  like  she  did 
last  Easter."  The  father  had  smiled 
back  at  the  wistful  little  figure  in  the 
doorway  and  he,  too,  compared  the 
present  time  with  their  last  happy 
Easter. 

The  father  gave  the  children  their 
supper  and  put  them  to  bed,  then  he 
went  into  the  mother's  room.  Ex- 
hausted with  her  grief  the  woman  had 
fallen  asleep,  the  little  shoe  still 
clasped  in  her  hands.  A  light  from 
the  street-lamp  fell  upon  her  face,  re- 
vealing the  lines  her  sorrow  had 
made.  The  husband's  heart  swelled 
with  a  great  love  and  pity.  He  want- 
ed  so  much  to  help  her  and  yet  all 


■•//■n/  WIS 


THEIR  EASTER  MORNING 


173 


his  efforts  had  been  futile.  He  stood 
looking  down  upon  the  white  face 
for  several  long  seconds.  Now  and 
then  broken  sobs  shook  her  frame.  At 
last  he  sank  upon  his  knees. 

"Dear  God,"  he  began  in  a  tremu- 
lous whisper,  "again  I  come  to  Thee 
and  ask  Thee  to  help  us  to  bear  our 
sorrow.  Wilt  thou  give  this  little 
woman  strength  to  bear  her  burden  ? 
Wilt  thou  comfort  her  and  point  out 
to  her  the  way  of  wisdom  and  duty 
and  peace?  I  trust  Thee,  O  Father. 
Amen." 

Noiselessly  he  went  to  the  closet 
and  took  from  the  shelf  a  warm  blan- 
ket which  he  carefully  tucked  around 
the  sleeper,  then  he  went  back  to  the 

nursery  and  lay  down  upon  the  couch. 

r 

The  soft  light  of  the  fresh  April 
morning  was  filtering  through  the 
windows  as  Marie  Kenwood  stirred. 
She  opened  her  eyes  and  stared  about 
in  a  sort  of  daze.  She  could  not  think 
for  the  moment  just  where  she  was, 
and  she  found  herself  trying  to  re- 
member just  what  had  been  that  won- 
derful experience  of  which  she  was 
vaguely  conscious.  Presently  she 
lifted  her  hand  and  something  dropped 
from  her  fingers.  It  was  a  baby's 
shoe.  Then  it  all  came  back :  the 
rushing  memory  of  her  passionate 
grief  the  day  before  and  the — expe- 
rience— or  could  it  have 'been  only  a 
dream?  She  could  feel  the  wonderful 
reality  of  it  even  yet.  First  there  had 
been  the  strange  consciousness  of  a 
presence  in  her  room,  then  the  appear- 
ance of  the  beautiful  white  personage 
liending  over  her.  Presently  she  had 
seemed  to  be  floating  away  with  her 
visitor.  They  came  to  a  place  more 
dazzling  in  beauty  than  anything  of 
which  she  had  ever  dreamed.  She  saw 
innumerable  white  personages  very 
like  her  companion,  their  faces  all 
beaming  with  a  joyous  light.  ■  Then 
suddenly  they  were  near  a  group  of 
children  and  there  among  them  was 
her  baby.  He  looked  so  beautiful  anrl 
well  and  happy.     His  face  was  turned 


to  her  and  he  smiled  and  began  blow- 
ing her  kisses  as  she  had  taught  him 
to  blow  them  to  his  father,  but  he 
made  no  movement  to  come  to  her. 
.\fter  her  first  amazement  at  seeing 
him  she  started  toward  him,  but  her 
companion  touched  her  shoulder  and 
pointed  in  the  opposite  direction. 
There  she  beheld  her  untidy  home, 
her  discouraged  husband  and  her  neg- 
lected children.  Even  before  her  com- 
Ijanion  spoke  she  suddenly  sensed 
what  she  had  been  doing.  

"There  is  your  duty,"  he  had  said 
in  a  kind,  low  tone.  "The  Father  will 
take  care  of  your  baby  for  you.  You 
must  take  care  of  these  others  for 
the  Father."  Then  he  had  disap- 
peared. She  had  looked  back  once 
more  toward  her  baby.  He  was  smil- 
ing and  waving  her  goodbye.  Then 
he,  too,  and  all  the  wonderous  vision 
had  faded  away,  and  she  had  awak- 
ened to  find  herself  there  in  her  own 
room,  the  little  shoe  clasped  in  her 
hand. 

Suddenly  through  the  window  there 
came  to  her  the  far  away  sound  of 
bells.  She  sat  up.  It  was  Easter! 
Easter !  She  sat  listening,  letting  the 
sweet  meaning  of  the  word  sink  into 
her  soul.  A  new  comfort  and  peace 
stole  over  her  and  with  it  a  great  de- 
termination to  make  amends  for  the 
wrong  she  could  now  see  she  had 
done  to  her  husband  and  little  chil- 
dren. 

"Father,  I  thank  Thee  for  this 
awakening,"  she  breathed  softly,  as 
she  gently  gathered  the  scattered 
keepsakes  from  the  bed  and  placed 
them  in  the  bottom  of  her  trunk. 
"Hereafter  I  shall  try  to  live  for  the 
present  and  the  future,  holding  only 
the  sweet  memories  of  the  past." 

Quickly  she  put  on  fresh  clothing 
and  arranged  her  hair.  Then  she  tip- 
toed to  the  nursery  door  and  took  a 
peep  at  her  sleeping  family.  A  great 
wave  of  love  came  over  her.  How 
could  she  have  neglected  her  treasures 
so !  Carefully  she  descended  the 
stairs,  once  more  her  old  happy,  hel])- 


174  111  11  JUriiMl.r.    INSTRUCTOR  Apm  ,.><s 

fill  self,  .'ind  with  a  deep  conviction  kitchtii  door  and  there  stood  Marie, 
that  after-  all  God's  ways  are  best,  even  smiling  up  into  his  face  from  her 
if  they  are  sometimes  hard  to  under-  arrantfement  of  the  breakfast  table, 
stand.  His  glad  heart  came  up  into  his  throat 
Two  hours  later  James  Kenwood  and  prevented  him  from  Kpeajcing, 
was  awakened  by  little  Dorothy  call-  but  the  loving  gratitude  he  felt  beamed 
ing  for  her  milk.  With  her  in  his  forth  from  his  eyes.  And  little  Dor- 
arms  he  went  down  stairs.  Why,  what  othy  called  over  her  shoulder  to  her 
had  happened  ?     The  disorder  of  the  sisters  upstairs  : 

house  had  given  way  to  its  old  time  "Oh,  Mawie  an'  Bessie,  come  quick 

atmosphere  of  cheery  hominess.     He  and  see  the  booful  Easter  eggs  Mama 

felt  it  even  before  he  discovered  just  has  made  for  us." 
what   it   all    meant.      He   opened   the 

The  April  Fool 

By  Annie  Malin. 

I  jumped  out  from  behind  the  door 

One  day,  just  after  school. 
To  scare  my  sister  Margaret. 

An'  called  out  "April  Fool." 
But  Margaret  can't  take  a  joke 

And  mentioned  "Golden  Rule," 
An'  said  the  one  who  tried  the  game 
'  Was  really  "April  Fool." 

I  called  out  to  my  brother  Dick 

To  hurry  out  to  see 
A  hundred  thousand  little  cats 

All  hangin'  in  a  tree. 
An'  when  he  looked  around,  he  laughed 

An'  said,  "You're  'April.  Fool.' 
■   For  pussy  willows  are  not  cats,  " 

Then  hurried  off  to  school. 

An'  then  my  cousin  Eleanor, 

Who  doesn't  go  to  school, 
Said    "Look  behind  you,  Walter  dear. 

An'  see  an  'April  Fool.'  " 
An'  when  I  turned  an'  looked  behind 

The  "April  Fool"  to  see — 
Right  in  the  great  big  lookin'  glass 

Was  no  one,  'ceptin'  me. 

Well,  I  don't  think  that  it  is  fair 

For  all  the  older  folks 
To  make  out  that  the  younger  ones 

Don't  know  about  the  jokes. 
An'  when  Em  bigger,  big  as  Dick 

An'  goin'  to  High  School, 
I  bet  Ell  fool  somebody  then 

An'  not  be  "April  Fool." 


Our  War  Garden 


By  Clara  S.  Fagergren 


Nearly  every  evening  during  the 
winter  months  we  found  great  pleas- 
ure in  gathering  around  the  table  and 
spending  the  time  in  planning  our  gar- 
den for  the  coming  summer.  Each 
member  of  the  family  decided  to  plant 
his  own  individual  garden  and  select 
his  own  variety  of  seed.  So  ,in  order 
to  please  them  all,  we  platted  and  di- 
vided the  back  yard — on  paper. 

Through  this  arrangement  we  found 
out  the  different  tastes  of  the  family. 
Some  scorned  the  idea  of  plant- 
ing cabbages  and  onions,  choosing 
watermelons  and  strawberries  for 
their  allotted  space ;  others,  however, 
proved  to  be  more  practical  as  they 
decided  on  corn  and  potatoes  as  their 
garden  products. 

As  spring  drew  near  we  sent  for  an 
avalanche  of  seed  catalogues  and  in- 
formation pertaining  to  the  raising  of 
fruit,  flowers,  and  vegetables.  We 
also  besieged  our  Congressmen  with 
letters  asking  for  free  seed ;  but  got 
from  them — none.  We  begged  cut- 
tings, roots  and  bulbs  from  our 
friends  whenever  an  opportunity  pre- 
sented itself,  till  they  began  to  shun 
our  appearance. 

In  addition  to  this  we  succeeded  in 
raising  several  thousand  tomato  and 
cabbage  plants  in  window  boxes ;  and 
saved  the  eyes  from  potatoes  for 
planting.  In  spite  of  our  preparations 
the  winter  weather  continued  unabated 
until  May,  when  we,  impatient  and 
full  of  spring  fever,  finally  began  to 
clear  the  ground  for  planting. 

The  family  would  arise  at  five 
o'clock  in  the  mornings  ;  then  equipped 
with  shovels,  rakes  and  hoes,  work 
diligently  and  perspiringly  in  the  gar- 
den, digging,  raking,  hoeing  and  lev- 
eling, for  a  couple  of  hours. 

The  result  was  phenomenal.  Where 
there  had  been  an  unsightly  patch  of 


ground  filled  with  weeds  and  rubbish, 
we  now  had  a  smooth,  clean-looking, 
well-dug  and  thoroughly  raked  back- 
yard. 

Our  next  task  was  to  portion  off  the 
ground  equally.  After  this  was  done 
to  every  one's  .satisfaction,  each  indi- 
vidual decided  on  a  different  dividing 
mark  to  distinguish  his  possession. 
Some  made  small  slat  fences,  while 
others  simply  stuck  twigs  and 
branches  along  their  lines ;  and  one 
enclosed  his  piece  of  ground  with  a 
stout  rope,  nailed  in  each  corner  to  a 
thick  post.  Every  thing  was  now  in 
order  for  planting;  so  we  divided  our 
stock  of  seeds  and  other  paraphernalia 
that  should  go  into  the  ground.  No 
one  consulted  anybody  else  as  to  loca- 
tion of  furrows  or  the  most  suitable 
space  for  plants  ;  each  one  just  planted 
as  his  fancy  dictated. 

Our  daily  diversion  after  this  was 
to  watch  for  things  growing.  To  our 
intense  gratification  and  delight  we 
were  rewarded  by  the  appearance  of 
numberless  tiny  green  shoots  which 
sprung  out  of  the  ground  with  a  ra- 
pidity that  was  surprising.  After  a 
few  days  of  careful  observance  these 
tender  plants  developed  into  full 
fledged  weeds  of  numerous  varieties ; 
in  fact,  we  had  never  suspected  that 
so  many  different  kinds  of  weeds 
could  find  room  to  grow  in  such  a 
small  space. 

Our  spare  time  was  now  spent  in 
distinguishing  between  weeds  and 
vegetable  and  flower  plants ;  and  we 
did  not  deem  it  wise  to  pull  the  weeds 
till  we  could  determine  which  was 
which. 

In  about  a  month  our  plantings 
showed  sufficient  development  so  as 
not  be  mistaken  for  weeds.  This 
proved  to  be  the  beginning  of  a  busy 
time,  as  every  spare  minute  we  could 


176 


THE  JLIVENII.E  INSTRUCTOR 


April  igiS 


get  was  spent  in  pulling  weeds  which 
seemed  to  spring  up  like  magic  in  an 
indescribably  short  time. 

According  to  the  .directions  con- 
tained in  the  catalogues,  our  radishes 
ought  to  mature  in  six  weeks.  At  the 
end  of  that  time  we  sampled  a  few, 
but  found  them  to  be  only  the  size 
of  toothpicks.  Looking  over  the  di- 
rections again  we  discovered  an  item 
which  explained  the  reason.  Rad- 
ishes should  be  thinned  out.  We 
hadn't  thought  of  that  before.  For 
this  reason  we  now  spent  some  busy 
hours  thinning  them,  because  we  had 
planted  all  the  radish  seed  available, 
and  they  were  growing  in  bunches  and 
patches  over  the  whole  place. 

Soon  after  this  we  had  radishes  on 
the  table :  and  every  one  declared  they 
tasted  far  better  than  any  other  varie= 
ty  they  had  ever  eaten.  But  they  con- 
tinued to  grow ;  we  could  not  dispose 
of  them  fast  enough ;  and  they  finally 
attained  the  size  of  rubber  balls  and 
were  as  hollow.  The  directions  were 
consulted  again ;  they  said  radishes 
ought  to  be  planted  in  lots  two  weeks 
apart.  We  had  planted  all  our  seen 
at  the  same  time. 

As  time  went  on  our  garden  began 
to  attract  the  attention  of  people  who 
were  passing  our  place.  At  first  we 
felt  quite  pleased  at  having  our  ability 
as  gardeners  recognized :  but  soon 
discovered  through  hearing  some  re- 
marks, that  they  were  amused  and 
ridiculed  the  looks  of  our  garden, 
which  by  this  time  presented  an  un- 
usual appearance.  Manv  varieties  of 
flowers,  mostly  marigolds  and  pop- 
pies, were  blooming  in  several  places 
among  the  vegetables.  This  fact  was 
easily  accounted  for ;  each  one  had 
planted  a  row  of  flowers  in  his  indi- 
vidual space  of  ground. 

Watermelon  and  squash  vines  rioted 
all  over  the  yard ;  crowding  out  the 
string  beans  and  tomato  plants.  Here 
and  there  a  lonely  stalk  of  corn  stood 
like  a  sentinel  on  guard  over  an  army. 
The   things   that    should    have    been 


|jlantcd  in  an  open,  .sunny  s])ace,  were 
growing  in  the  shade  by  the  fence  and 
vice  versa.  We  had  planted  the  cab- 
bage about  two  inches  apart  and  it 
grew  in  a  row  as  solid  as  a  hedge. 

We  also  found  it  necessary  to  thin 
out  the  carrots  and  parsnips.  Their 
tops  presented  a  luxuriant  ajipear- 
ance,  but  investigation  revealed  noth- 
ing resembling  a  root  underneath  the 
soil. 

Prospects  were  bright  for  a  boun- 
teous crop  of  watermelons.  There 
were  several  dozen  of  them,  about  the 
size  of  cocoanuts,  when  the  children 
took  a  notion  into  their  heads  to  plug 
them,  just  to  satisfy  their  curiosity. 
Of  course  this  incident  halted  our  im- 
agination as  to  a  future  watermelon 
feast. 

The  last  straw  added  to  our  vexa- 
tions came  in  the  form  of  the  water 
inspector  who  informed  us  it  was 
against  the  law  to  irrigate  a  garden 
with  water  running  from  a  hose  with- 
out a  nozzle.  We  must  stop  the  prac- 
tice at  once  or  be  fined  one  hundrea 
dollars  ;  or  spend  one  hundred  days  in 
jail,  or  both.  We  stopped  watering 
that  day. 

Through  all  our  work  and  worry 
we  had  completely  forgotten  the  smal? 
patch  of  ground  at  the  far  end  of  the 
back  yard  which  was  planted  in  pota- 
toes, and  formerly  contained  a  sand 
pile  where  the  children  used  to  play. 
No  attempt  had  been  made  to  water 
or  tend  it;  only  the  surplus  water 
from  the  other  garden  would  occa- 
sionally seep  in.  As  the  tops  looked 
puny  and  stringy  we  did  not  even 
bother  to  look  and  see  what  was  un- 
derneath them  till  one  day  we  dug  a 
hole  in  the  middle  of  the  patch  to  bury 
a  dead  chicken.  Imagine  our  surprise 
when  with  the  first'  shovelful  of  dirt 
we  uncovered  several  large,  fine  look- 
ing potatoes :  and  by  digging  them  all 
up  we  got  something  like  three  bush- 
els altogether. 

We   now    felt   well   repaid   for'  our 


.4/>ii7  igiS 


OUR   Jl'AR   GARDEN. 


177 


work ;    and    had   also    learned   lessons  4.  Abolish   flowers   from  the  vege- 

regarding  gardening,  which  were :  tables. 

1.  Plant  in  parallel  rows.  5.  Divide  the  garden  work  among 

2.  Select  not  more  than  three  or  the  members  of  the  family ;  giving 
four  varieties  of  seed  for  a  small  them  all  an  equal  share  of  the 
garden.  products. 

3.  No  small  individual  gardens. 


SUPERINTENDENCY  AND  SECRETARY  SUNDAY  SCHOOLS,  ST.  JOHNS 
STAKE,  THIRTY  YEARS   AGO 

At  the  "Home-Coming,"  held  at  S  Johns,  Arizona,  July  23,  1917,  the  thir- 
tieth anniversary  of  the  organizatioji  of  the  St.  Johns  Stake  (July  23,  1887),  all 
the  members  of  the  first  superintendency  and  secretary  were  present  and  pho- 
tographed as  above.  Reading  from  lef  to  right:  Standing — W.  David  Rencher, 
superintendent:  George  H.  Crosby,  Jr.,  secretary  and  treasurer.  Sitting — Charles 
Jarvis,   first  assistant;   Elisha  Averett,  second  assistant. 


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I  TRUE  PIONEER  STORIES 

i  Contributed  by  Daughters  of  Utah  Pioneers  | 

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Aunt  Presindia's  Unanswered  Prayer 

By  Flora  B.  Home 


It   was  a  busy   time   on   the   Potta- 
watomie   Indian    reservation,    in    the 
spring  of  1848.     Many  of  the  Latter- 
day  Saints  who  had  lived  in  Council 
Bluffs,  Iowa,  and  in  Winter  Quarters, 
Nebraska,    since   their    exodus     from 
Nauvoo,  111.,  in  1846,  were  now  pre- 
paring to  go  to  the  Rocky  Mountains, 
the  resting  place  of  the  Saints.    It  was 
just  a  year  before  when  they  helped 
the  first   Pioneer  company  to  get  off 
on   their   western   journey   to   an   un- 
known    home.        With     their      noble 
prophet  and  seer  as  a  leader  and  guide, 
they   found   the  place     reserved     for 
them.     Brigham  Young  was  not  yet 
made  President  of  the  Church  on  this 
first  trip,  but  as  the  presiding  Apostle 
he  was,  truly,  a  modern  Moses.     Per- 
haps you  know,  that  President  Young 
and  many  men  and  teams  went  back 
to  Council  Bluffs  in  August,  1847,  to 
help  others  organize  for  the  journey 
and  report  what  had  been  found.     In 
December  of  that  year,  President  Brig- 
ham  Young  was  made  President  and 
Seer   of   the    Church   with    Heber    C. 
Kimball  and  Dr.  Willard  Richards  as 
his  counselors.       It  is  the  Heber  C. 
■!(.        Kimball  company  that  we  will  notice 
in  particular.     President  Kimball,  like 
President  Young,  was  fearless  and  de- 
termined.      While    he     was    a    great 
prophet,    yet    he   always   could    enjoy 
a  joke.     While  the  men  folk  gathered 
their  oxen,  a   few  cows,   a   few  beef 
cattle,  hogs,  chickens,  sheep  ( for  sheep 
served  a  double  purpose  in  supplying 
food   and   clothing),   and   their   flour, 
corn  meal,  bacon,   beans,   seeds,   etc., 
the  women    were     making     clothing, 
pounding  crackers,  parching  corn,  and 
tenderly   packing   away    the   precious 
treasures     brought      from    their    old 
homes  in  England,  Denmark,  or  Can- 
ada.     Much    home-made    soap     was 
made  from  bits  of  grease,  for  you  may 
know    not  even   a  bacon     rind     was 


wasted.       There    is    a    piece    of    this 
soap    made    by    Zina     D.    H.    Young 
in    the    relic    hall    at    the    Bureau    of 
Information    now.       War    times    are 
bringing   us    back  to    those    good    old 
pioneer   days   when   nothing   was  de- 
stroye.d  that  could  be  used  in  any  way. 
They  dried  fruit  and  ve'getables  as  you 
boys  and  girls  are  doing  now.     Have 
you  ever  imagined  how  those  pioneers 
washed  their  clothing?    They  traveled 
along   the   Platte   river  and   then   the 
Sweet  Water  branch,  having  to  ford 
the  rivers  many  times  to  find  a  road ; 
but  the  streams  made  good  wash  tubs 
for  them  and  watering  places  for  cat- 
tle  and   horses.       Grassy    feed     was 
found  close  to  the  rivers  usually.  Pres- 
ident Young  had  wisely  left  letters  of 
instruction  between  the  top  stones  of 
a  heap  of  rocks,  and  on  buffalo  skulls 
as  a  guide  to  the  later  pioneers.     It 
was  a   hard   journey.     Three  months 
seemed  a  long  time  to  travel  liy  ox- 
team.      Sister    Penrose    cheerily    said 
recently:      "I    did    so   enjoy   my   trip 
across  the  plains.    I  saw  so  much  new 
scenery  and  had  so  much  time  to  enjoy 
it."     It  was  not  so  with  all.     "Aunt 
Presindia'    Kimball   had   always   been 
noted   for  her  wonderful     faith    anci 
patience.       Her    husband.     President 
Heber  C.   Kimball  had  come  in  that 
first  anxious   company    of    143   men, 
three  women  and  two  children.in  1847. 
and  this  trip  was  easy  to  him.     He 
had  pictured  the  wonderful  valley  to 
her.     When  she  came  down  Emigra- 
tion canyon  and  looked  over  the  bar- 
ren waste  for  miles  around,  her  heart 
sank  within  her.     She  was  sorely  dis- 
appointed, and  sought  a  secluded  spot 
to  pour  out  her  soul  to  God,  for  her 
husband  jestingly  laughed  at  her.  She 
found  a  bunch  of  oak  brush  near  the 
mouth  of  the  canyon,  and  there  prayed 
earnestly,  that  the  I^rd  would  not  let 
her  lay  down  her  bones  in  this  desert 


April  igiS 


AUNT  PRESINDIA'S   UNANSWERED  PRAYER 


179 


place,  that  she  might  be  buried  in  a 
land  more  dear  to  her.  President 
Kimball  knew  God  had  chosen  the 
])lace  and  would  make  it  beautiful. 
Many,  many  times  she  repented  that 
prayer.  Had  she  asked  for  strength 
to  endure  her  hardships,  as  was  her 
custom,  the  burdens  would  have  been 
lightened  for  her.  When  her  son 
took  ill  in  St.  Joseph,  Mo.,  some  years 
later,  she  went  back  to  his  home.  He 
died.  "Aunt  Presindia"  could  not 
bear  to  start  on  that  journey  without 
this  promise  from  her  family — that  if 
she  died  while  in  the  east,  that  her 
body  be  brought  to  Utah  for  burial. 
Thus  her  disappointment  became  her 
joy.  She  marveled  at  the  name  given 
to  "Great  Salt  Lake  City"  by  the  pio- 
neers in  those  early  days.  It  was  evi- 
dent that  the  city  itself  had  little  to 
do  with  it,  for  it  was  a  mere  fort,  lo- 
cated on  Pioneer  Square,  with  about 
three  thousand  people  cuddled  in  as 
a  protection  from  the  Indians.  She 
recognized  that  "Great"  came  from 
the  briny  lake  that  seemed  like  an 
ocean  to  her.     "Aunt  Presindia"  like 


her  sister  ".Aunt  Zina"  D.  H.  Young, 
became  a  "ministering  angel"  among 
the  people.  Not  only  their  children 
rise  up  and  call  them  blessed,  but  hun- 
dreds of  women  and  children  who 
have  been  tenderly  nursed  and  raised 
from  beds  of  affliction  by  the  prayers 
and  faith  of  these  favored  hand- 
maidens of  God.  They  soon  learned 
that  hardship  gave  strength  and  they 
passed  strength  on  to  others.  During 
the  famine  that  followed  the  grass- 
hopper plague  of  1854,  she,  dear 
"Aunt  Presindia,"  prayed  that  her  ap- 
petite be  taken  from  her,  that  she 
might  give  of  her  food  to  the  un- 
fortunate ones.  Thus  her  life  was  a 
grand  lesson  of  service  and  sacrifice, 
as  shown  to  her  in  the  glorious  life 
of  our  Savior,  the  Redeemer  of  the 
world. 

Aunt  Presindia's  "unanswered 
prayer"  was  a  severe  rebuke  and  trial 
to  her  for  years.  She  learned  to  be 
patient  and  persevering  in  overcoming 
difficulties  ;  and  above  all,  to  prav  care- 
fully. 


PARENTS   CLASS   TEACHEKS,  SEVIER  STAKE, 


Letter  from  a  Japanese  Convert 


Sapporo,  Japan,  Jan.  1,  1918. 
To  Ihc  Editor  of  Juvenile  Instructor: 

1  consider  it  a  great  blessing  to  be 
able  to  write  a  letter,  that  I  have  been 
going  to  for  some  time,  on  the  first 
day  of  1918,  when  the  warm  sun  is 
shining  on  the  newly-fallen  snow, 
and  people  everywhere  observing  a 
time-honored  custom,  by  making  a 
house  to  house  call  to  extend  New 
Year's  congratulations  and  promote 
mutual  friendship. 

But  as  America  is  taking  a  very  ac- 
tive part  in  this  dreadful  world-war, 
I  fear  there  are  many  who  miss  the 
com])anionship  of  son  or  brother,  or 
perhaps  a  husband  or  father  who  has 
gone  to  serve  his  country.  However, 
I  belive  if  they  have  a  good  under- 
standing- of  the  teachings  of  the 
Church,  that  my  brethren  will  lead  ex- 
emplary lives  and  thus  be  missionaries 
and  soldiers  at  the  same  time. 

It  is  just  ten  years  since  I  received 
ba.ptism  from  Elder  Justice  B.  Seely. 
Since  then  I  have  spent  some  time 
out  in  the  country,  but  most  of  the 
time  I  have  lived  in  Sapporo  near  the 
church.  During  that  time  I  have  at- 
tended most  of  the  meetings  and 
taught  a  Sunday  School  class. 

It  must  be  very  nice  in  Utah  where 
most  of  the  people  belong  to  the 
Church.  There  are  many  churches  in 
Japan.  Recently  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land built  a  nice  church  only  a  block 
away  from  ours  and  we  were  afraid 
we  would  loose  some  of  our  children, 
but  we  haven't  vet. 


I  am  very  thankful  that  God- has 
seen  fit  to  establish  His  Church  in 
Japan,  for  in  it  .some  Japanese  have 
found  satisfaction,  and  the  way  that 
leads  to  eternal  life.  I  think  the  rea- 
son there  are  not  more  who  join  is 
because  this  is  the  higher  law  and 
perhaps  harder  to  obey.  The  Word  of 
Wisdom  .sounds  very  strange  to  many 
]ieople  as  tea  drinking  is  a  universal 
custom  in  Japan.  But  we  are  not  dis- 
couraged at  the  scarcity  of  numbers, 
and  are  perhaps  the  more  thankful  to 
think  we  are  among  the  chosen  few. 

There  are  some  people  who  ignor- 
antly  and  unjustly  attack  the  Church 
of  Christ,  but  I  always  feel  sorry  for 
them  and  often  wonder  what  they 
would  feel  like  if  they  could  but  real- 
ize what  they  are  opposing. 

As  I  am  a  newspaper  reporter  I 
have'  a  privilege  of  studying  the  public 
mind  and  I  notice  a  marked  change 
in  the  attitude  of  the  people  towards 
L'tah  and  the  Mormons,  due  perhaps 
to  the  fact  that  the  elders  have  re- 
cently made  many  friends  among  the 
h'gher  classes,  and  some  influential 
Japanese  have  returned  from  America 
after  visiting  Utah. 

In  conclusion  I  wish  to  ask  a  favor 
in  the  form  of  advice  to  the  people  in 
Zion,  and  that  is  that  they  take  spe- 
cial pains  to  teach  their  children  the 
grand  principles  of  the  gospel  so  that 
thev  will  become  val'ant  soldiers  for 
Truth. 

Miss  Tam.\xo  Kum.vgai. 


Rubbing   It  In 


Our  Baby  is  a  darling. 
He  is  only  four  years  old, 

Yet  the  half  of  all  his  sweetness 
Has  never  vet  been  told. 


"Oh  fie,  oh  fie,"  said  Papa, 
"To  rub  my  kiss  away. 

When  Papa's  going  to  leave  yon 
And  won't  come  back  all  day." 


One  day,  when  Papa  said  "Good-bye" 

He  raised  his  chubby  fist 
And  rubbed  his  little  rosebud  mouth 

Just  where  he  had  been  kissed. 


But  our  darling  answered  gaily, 
With  a  merry  little  grin, 

"Why,  I  isn't  rubbing  ofl^  your  kiss. 
That's  the  way  I  rub  it  in !" 

Mary  F.  Kelly, 


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JUVENILE  INSTRUCTOR 

Organ  of  the  Deseret  Sunday  School  Union 

President  Joseph   F.    Smith,    Editor 

George  D.   Pyper,  Associate  Editor 

T.  Albert  Hooper,  Business  Manager 

Published  Montlily 
Price  $1  a  year,  payable  in  advance 
Entered  at  the  Post  OtKce,  Salt  Lake  City,  as 
Second  Class  Matter. 

Copyright,   1918,   by  Joseph  F.  Smith,   for   the 
Deseret  Sunday  School  Union. 

OfiBcers  of  the  Deseret  Sunday  School  Union 

Joseph    F.    Smith General  Supt. 

David  O.  McKay 1st  Asst.  General  Supt. 

Stephen   L.    Richards.  ..  .2nd  Asst.  General  Supt. 

George    D.    Pyper General  Secretary 

John   F.    Bennett General  Treasurer 

MEMBERS   OF   THE   GENERAL  BOARD 

Joseph  F.  Smith  Harold  G.  Reynolds 

David  O.  McKay  Charles  B.  Felt 

Stephen  L.  Richards  George  H.  Wallace 

Heber  J.  Grant  Howard  R.  Driggs 

Hugh  J.  Cannon  Nathan  T.  Porter 

Andrew  Kimball  Milton  Bennion 

John  F.  Bennett  Charles  W.  Penrose 

John  M.  Mills  Edwin  G.  Woolley,  Jr. 

Seymour  B.  Young  Hyrum  G.  Smith 

George  D.  Pyper  Charles  H.  Hart 

Anthon  H.  Lund  Joseph  Ballantyne 

James  E.  Talmage  J.  Leo  Fairbanks 

George  M.  Cannon  J.  W.  Walker 

Horace  H.  Cummings  K.  G.  Gowans 

Josiah  Burrows  E.  Conway  Ashton 

William  A.  Morton  Adam  S.  Bennion 

Horace  S.  Ensign  Edward  P.  Kimball 

Henry  H.  Rolapp  Tracy  Y.  Cannon 

Salt  Lake  City,  April,  1918 


Humane  Day 

What  is  it  to  be  humane  to  the 
beasts  of  the  fields  and  birds  of  the 
air? 

It  is  more  than  to  be  considerate  of 
the  animal  life  entrusted  to  our  care. 
It  is  a  grateful  appreciation  of  God's 
creations.  It  is  the  lesson  of  divine 
love.  To  Him  all  life  i.s  a  sacred  cre- 
ation for  the  use  of  His  children.  Do 
we  stand  beside  Him  in  our  tender  re- 
gard for  life? 

Our  sense  of  appreciation  should  be 


quickened  by  a  desire  to  understand 
divine  purposes,  and  to  keep  the  bal- 
ance of  animal  life  adjusted  to  the 
needs  of  creation.  Man  in  his  wanton 
disregard  of  a  sacred  duty  has  been 
reckless  of  life.  He  has  destroyed  it 
with  an  indifference  to  the  evil  results 
it  would  entail  upon  the  earth.  Birds 
have  been  uselessly  slaughtered,  and 
pests  have  sprung  up  as  a  consequence 
to  plague  the  people  of  the  world. 

We  are  a  part  of  all  life  and  .should 
study  carefully  our  relationship  to  it. 
\\'e  should  be  in  sympathy  with  it,  and 
not  allow  our  prejudices  to  create  a 
desire  for  its  destruction.  The  un- 
necessar\-  destruction  of  life  begets  a 
s]iirit  of  destruction  which  grows 
within  the  soul.  It  lives  by  what  it 
feeds  upon  and  robs  man  of  the  love 
that  he  should  have  for  the  works  of 
God.  It  hardens  the  heart  of  man  and 
makes  him  prey  upon  the  social  wel- 
fare which  he  should  feel  for  the  hap- 
piness and  advancement  of  his  fellow- 
man.  The  unnecessary  destruction  of 
life  is  a  distinct  spiritual  loss  to  the 
human  family.  Men  can  not  worship 
the  Creator  and  look  with  careless  in- 
difference upon  his  creations.  The 
love  of  all  life  helps  man  to  the  en- 
joyment of  a  better  life.  It  exalts  the 
spiritual  nature  of  those  in  need  of 
divine  favor. 

The  wanton  destruction  of  life  re- 
.acts  upon  the  human  family.  There 
is  something  of  the  law  of  compensa- 
tion which  makes  criminals  injure  and 
destroy  life.  Men  who  are  unsvmpa- 
thetic  toward  the  life  of  domestic  an- 
imals entrusted  to  them  usually  receive 
the  rewanl  of  their  cruelty  by  the 
dumb  animals  which  they  maltreat. 
Love  begets  love  in  all  creation,  and 


Al>ril  191S 


EDITORIAL    THOUGHTS 


183 


nature    responds    bounteously    to    the 
tender  treatment  of  man. 

Men  learn  more  easily-  in  sympa- 
thetic relationships  of  all  life  than  they 
do  in  the  seclusion  of  human  interest. 
Their  minds  are  more  open  to  the 
manifestations  of  that  inspiration 
which  all  nature  gives  to  those  who 
lovingly  enjoy  her.  Wisdom  and  vir- 
tue come  from  the  animal  and  vege- 
table world  which  carries  with  it  a 
spiritual  as  well  as  a  material  blessing. 
Nature  helps  us  to  see  and  understand 
God.  To  all  His  creations  we  owe  an 
allegiance  of  service  and  a  profound 
admiration.  Man  should  be  kind  to 
the  animals  which  serve  him  both  di- 
rectly and  indirectly.  An  angry  word 
or  a  brutal  blow  wounds  the  heart 
from  which  it  comes.  Love  of  nature 
is  akin  to  the  love  of  God ;  the  two 
are  inseparable. 

John  St.  John 

Nephi  Anderson's  latest  book,  just 
issued  from  the  press  of  Zion's  Printr 
ing   and    Publishing   Company,    Inde- 


pendence, Mo.,  has  for  its  setting  the 
stirring  scenes  of  Missouri  and  Illinois 
during  the  years  when  the  Latter-day 
Saints  were  in  those  states. 

It  tells  the  story  of  how  a  young 
man,  leaving  friends,  kinfolk,  and  the 
comforts  of  home,  goes  to  Missouri  to 
see  the  Prophet  Joseph  Smith  and  to 
investigate  for  himself  the  claims  of 
his  followers. 

John  St.  John  comes  under  the  be- 
nign influence  of  the  Prophet.  He 
goes  through  some  of  the  dreadful 
scenes  of  Missouri.  He  is  one  of  the 
founders  of  Nauvoo,  the  City  Beauti- 
ful. He  is  an  active  participant  in  the 
stirring  events  which  culminated  in  the 
battle  of  Nauvoo  and  the  fall  of  the 
city. 

The  story  brings  out  most  interest- 
ingly the  wonderful  doctrine  develop- 
ment in  the  Church  during  the  latter 
years  of  the  Prophet's  life.  As  with 
all  of  Brother  Anderson's  books,  the 
religion  of  the  Latter-day  Saints  is 
closely  interwoven  with  plot  and  story. 
In  this  work  much  of  the  history  of 
the  Church  is  vividly  portrayed. 


SUNDAY  SCHOOL  OF  GAVLE,  SWEDEN 

Back  row,  left  to  right:  Melvina  Weniierniaek,  Secretary  and  Treasurer:  Beda 
Gustavson,  p'ornier  Secretary  and  Treasurer;  Gulli  Widin,  Organist.  Center  row: 
Lawrence  Lind,  missicnary  from  Lynn,  Utah:  Joseph  A.  Jolianson,  Rexburg,  Idaho, 
First  Assistant:  John  Johnson,  Rigby,  Idaho,  Superintendent:  llanna  Ekstroni, 
Second  Assistant. 


TOPICS    OF    THE    TIMES 


inAiiiiiiimiifficmTimmnnMiiiiiiiii j 


mrniiriiiiiimii miiiinn: 


TF[irTTiTrTiiij]inin)inrxTr 


By  Praiiklin  S.  Richards 


THE    WAR 


PRINCIPLES     ESSENTIAL    TO    PEACE 


The  great  "smash"  which  the  Ger- 
mans ha|ve  promised  to  make  this 
spring  is  now  going  on  with  terrible 
fury.  The  German  commander  has 
said  that  he  is  ready  to  sacrifice  three 
hundred  thousand  men,  if  need  be,  to 
break  the  western  line,  and  the  Kaiser 
says  that  this  is  the  most  important 
moment  of  the  war. 

As  we  go  to  press,  the  greatest  bat- 
tle ever  known  is  in  progress,  and  the 
Germans  have  bent  the  British  line  on 
a  stretch  of  fifty  miles.  It  is  believed 
the  Germans  can  be  held  back,  but  the 
world  is  trembling.  Every  minute  is 
making  history. 

The  United  States  contingent  has 
distinguished  itself,  not  only  by  suc- 
fessful  attacks,  but  also  by  resisting 
the  terrific  onslaughts  of  the  enemy. 
So  conspicuous  was  the  success  and 
bravery  of  the  Americans  that  they 
were  highly  eulogized  by  the  French 
and  British  commanders.  Re-enforce- 
ments are  being  pushed  to  the  front, 
and  assurances  have  been  given  that 
half  a  million  of  our  soldiers  will  be 
in  France  this  spring. 

PRESIDENT   Wilson's    peace   mess.vge 

President  Wilson,  considering  it  ne- 
cessary to  reply  to  statements  made 
by  the  ministers  of  Germany  and  Aus- 
tria, in  answering  his  speech  of  Jan- 
uary 8th,  delivered  an  address  before 
Congress  in  which  he  said : 

"This  war  had  its  roots  in  the  dis- 
regard of  the  rights  of  small  nations 
and  of  nationalities  which  lacked  the 
union  and  the  force  to  make  good 
their  claim  to  determine  their  own 
allegiances  and  their  own  forms  of 
political  life. 


The  principles  to  be  applied  in  con 
sidering  terms  of  peace  are  these : 

"First,  that  each  part  of  the  final 
settlement  must  be  based  upon  the  es- 
sential justice  of  that  particular  cause 
and  upon  such  adjustments  as  are 
most  likely  to  bring  a  peace  that  will 
be  permanent ; 

"Second,  that  peoples  and  provinces 
are  not  to  be  bartered  about  from  sov- 
ereignty to  sovereignty  as  if  they  were 
mere  chattels  and  pawns  in  a  game, 
even  the  great  game,  now  forever  dis- 
credited, of  the  balance  of  power ;  but 
that, 

"Third,  every  territorial  settlement 
involved  in  this  war  must  be  made  in 
the  interest  and  for  the  benefit  of  the 
populations  concerned,  and  not  as  a 
part  of  any  mere  adjustment  or  com- 
promise of  claims  amongst  rival 
states : 

"Fourth,  that  all  well-defined  na- 
tional aspirations  shall  be  accorded  the 
utmost  satisfaction  that  can  be  ac- 
corded them  without  introducing  new 
or  perpetuating  old  elements  of  dis- 
cord and  antagonism  that  would  be 
likely  in  time  to  break  the  peace  of 
Europe  and  consequently  of  the  world. 

"A  general  peace  erected  on  such 
foundations  can  be  discussed.  Until 
such  a  peace  can  be  secured  we  have 
no  choice  but  to  go  on.  So  far  as  we 
can  judge  these  principles  that  we  re- 
gard as  fundamental  are  already  ev- 
erywhere accepted  as  imperative,  ex- 
cept among  the  spokesmen  of  the  mil- 
itary and  annexationist  partv  in  Ger- 
many. If  they  have  anywhere  else 
been  rejected,  the  objectors  have  not 
been  sufficiently  numerous  or  influen- 
tial to  miake  their  voices  audible.  The 
tragical  circumstance  is  that  this  one 


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TOPICS  OF  THE  TIMES 


185 


party  in  Germany  is  apparently  will- 
ing and  able  to  send  millions  of  men 
to  their  death  to  prevent  what  all  the 
world  now  sees  to  be  just. 

WILL   NOT  TURN    BACK. 

"I  would  not  be  a  true  spokesman 
of  the  people  of  the  United  States  if 
I  did  not  say  once  more  that  we  en- 
tered this  war  upon  no  small  occa- 
sion, and  that  we  never  can  turn  back 
from  a  course  chosen  upon  principle. 
Our  resources  are  in  part  mobilized 
now  and  we  shall  not  pause  until  they 
are  mobilized  in  their  entirety.  Our 
armies  are  rapidly  going  to  the  fight- 
ing front,  and  will  go  more  and  more 
rapidly. 

"Our  whole  strength  will  be  put  into 
this  war  of  emancipation  from  the  at- 
tempted mastery  of  selfish  groups  of 
autocratic  rulers — whatever  the  diffi- 
culties and  present  partial  delays.  We 
are  indomitable  in  our  power  of  in- 
dependent action  and  can  in  no  cir- 
cumstaces  consent  to  live  in  a  world 
governed  by  intrigue  and  force.  We 
believe  that  our  own  desire  for  a  new 
international  order  under  which  rea- 
son and  justice  and  the  common  in- 
terests of  mankind  shall  prevail  is  the 
desire  of  enlightened  men  everywhere. 
Without  that  new  order  the  world  will 
be  without  neace  and  human  life  will 
lack  tolerable  conditions  of  existence 
and  development.  Having  set  our 
hand  to  the  task  of  achieving  it,  we 
shall  not  turn  back." 

Germany's  reply 

While  the  German  Chancellor  said 
that  he  coidd  fundamentallv  agree 
with  the  four  principles  which  Pres- 
ident Wilson  said  must  be  applied  in 
a  mutual  exchange  of  views  on  the 
subject  of  peace,  and  that  he  consid- 
ered the  President's  message  "a  small 
step  towards  a  mutual  reapproach- 
ment,"  he  so  qualified  his  acceptance 
that  it  was  considered  by  the  President 
as  ending  all  talk  of  peace  negotia- 
tions. 


ENGLAND  S  .\NSWER 

The  same  view  was  taken  by  Eng- 
land and  France.  Secretary  Balfour 
delivered  a  scathing  speech  in  the 
House  of  Commons,  exposing  the  fal- 
lacy and  insincerity  of  the  German 
Chancellor's  address,  whose  adroit 
phrases  have  been  declared  to  be 
merely  "camouflage."  The  Secretary 
said : 

"I  am  convinced  that  I  should  be 
doing  an  injury  to  the  cause  of  peace 
if  I  encouraged  the  idea  that  there  is 
any  use  in  beginning  these  verbal  ne- 
gotiations until  something  like  a  gen- 
eral agreement  is  apparent  in  the  dis- 
tance and  until  the  statesmen  of  all 
the  countries  see  their  way  to  that 
broad  settlement,  which,  I  am  in  hope, 
will  bring  peace  to  this  sorely  troubled 
world." 

RUSSIA 

The  Russian  stiuation  has  become 
very  complicated.  The  Bolsheviki 
government  first  commenced  negotia- 
tions with  Germany  for  peace  with  the 
understanding  that  no  anexation  or 
indemnity  would  be  required,  and 
when  Germany's  oppressive  demands 
included  both  annexation  and  indem- 
ii'tv,  the  Russians  declined  to  sign  the 
proposed  treaty.  As  soon  as  the  time 
for  a'-mistice  had  expired,  the  Ger- 
mans continued  their  advance  into 
Russia,  and  as  the  Russian  army  had 
been  disbanded,  the  people  were  at 
the  mercy  of  their  enemy  and  so 
signed  a  treaty  of  peace,  which  places 
Russia  in  the  position  of  a  conquered 
nation.  In  spite  of  the  treaty  of  peace, 
the  Germans  are  still  advancing  on 
F'etrograd  and  the  capital  has  been 
transferred  to  Moscow. 

Japan  has  obtained  the  consent  of 
a'l  the  allies,  except  the  United  States, 
to  send  a  military  expedition  into  Si- 
be'  ia.  Whether  it  will  result  in  the 
complete  occupation  by  Japanese  and 
Chinese  troops  of  the  entire  Trans- 
.Siberian  railway  from  Vladivostok  to 
Lake   Baikal   will   depend   entirely  on 


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developments.  Should  Russia  sub- 
mit tamely  to  the  German  demands 
and  occupation,  it  is  believed  that 
Japan  will  act  with  al!  her  strength, 
but  should  the  Bolsheviki  withdraw 
before  the  Germans  and  refuse  to 
mieet  their  demands,  then  Japan  will 
move  very  slowly  while  every  effort 
will  be  made  to  placate  the  Russian 
people. 

There  is  a  strong  feeling  in  some 
parts  of  this  country  against  Japan- 
ese intervention.  It  is  claimed  that 
her  entry  into  Siberia  is  not  to  aid 
the  allies,  but  to  entrench  Japan ;  that 
she  is  taking  advantage  of  the  Euro- 
pean conflict  to  build  a  great  Asiatic 
empire,  which  will  be  a  menace  to  all 
the  white  nations  of  the  world ;  that 
it  means  the  destruction  of  European 
civilization.  It  is  said  that  democ- 
racy advances  with  the  white  races  to 
higher  humanitarian  ideals  and  more 
just  and  equal  social  and  political  con- 
ditions, while  orientalism,  on  the  con- 
trary, means  despotism ;  that  the 
faundamental  character  of  the  oriental 
is  despotic ;  that  with  him,  equality 
is  not  a  benefit,  morality  is  not  a 
virtue,  and  humanity  is  a  weakness. 
These  people  claim  that  all  the  world 
is  threatened  by  the  advancing  empire 
of  Japan,  but  especially  and  particu- 
larly is  America  threatened,  because 
we  are  the  nearest  to  Japan  commer- 
cially and  territorially,  and  the  farth- 
est from  her  politically,  economically 
industrially  and  socially. 

THE    FOOD    PROBLEM 

Mr.  Hoover  has  recently  issued  a 
circular  in  which  he  says  that  "the 
situation  has  become  critical.  There 
is  simply  not  enough  food  in  Europe, 
yet  the  soldiers  of  the  Allies  must  be 
maintained  in  full  strength ;  their 
wives  and  children  at  home  must  not 
face  famine ;  the  friendly  neutrals 
must  not  be  starved,  and,  finally,  our 
own  army  in  France  must  never  lack 
a  needed  ounce  of  food."  There  is  no 
purpose    to    starve    the    people    but 


"much  of  the  needed  saving  can  be 
efifected  by  substituting  one  kind  of 
food  for  another  and  the  time  has 
come  to  put  aside  all  selfishness  and 
disloyalty." 

"The  whole  great  problem  of  win- 
ning the  war  rests  primarily  on  one 
thing,  the  loyalty  and  sacrifice  of  the 
American  people  in  the  matter  of 
food.  It  is  not  a  government  respon- 
sibility, it  is  the  responsibility  of  each 
individual.  Each  pound  of  food  saved 
by  each  American  citizen  is  a  pound 
given  to  the  support  of  our  army,  the 
allies  and  the  friendly  neutrals.  Each 
pound  wasted  or  eaten  unnecessarily 
is  a  pound  withheld  from  them.  It  is 
a  direct  personal  obligation  on  the  part 
of  each  of  us  to  someone  in  Europe 
whom  we  are  bound  to  help.  If  we 
are  selfish,  or  even  careless,  we  are 
disloyal ;  we  are  the  enemy  at  home. 
Now  is  the  hour  of  our  testing.  Let 
us  make  it  the  hour  of  victory.  If 
we  do  not  make  it  the  hour  of  victory 
we  shall  inevitably  make  it  the  hour 
of  defeat.  We  shall  lose  or  win  this 
war  according  as  we  save  food  or 
waste  it." 

Many  people  are  trying  to  follow 
the  government  program  for  conserv- 
ing food. 

In  many  hotels  and  eating-houses 
only  two  ounces  of  bread  can  be 
served  to  each  person  and  on  wheat- 
less  days  no  wheat  bread  at  all ;  no 
meat  on  meatless  days  and  no  pork 
on  porkless  days.  These  rules  are 
strictly  observed  in  many  places,  but 
it  is  said  that  from  forty  to  sixty  per 
cent  of  the  people  of  the  nation  are  not 
living  up  to  the  spirit  of  the  food  reg- 
ulations and  we  are  told  that  unless 
there  is  a  decided  improvement  in  this 
respect,  it  may  become  necessary  to  is- 
sue food  cards,  as  is  being  done  in 
Europe. 

HIGH   FOOD  PRICES  IN   BERLIN 

A  Washington  dispatch  says: 
"Butter  is  selling  in  Berlin  at  $2.25 
per  pound,  sugar  at  56  cents  a  pound, 


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187 


ham  and  bacon  at  $2.11  per  pound, 
and  American  soap  at  five  bars  for 
$1.12.  This  information,  received  by 
the  food  administration,  comes 
through  a  reHable  source.  The  prices 
are  from  four  to  five  times  as  high  as 
those  now  prevaiHng  in  the  United 
States." 

FOOD    CONDITIONS    IN    GERMANY 

We  do  not  know  a  great  deal  about 
food  conditions  in  Germany.  Con- 
flicting statements  have  -done  their 
part  in  keeping  us  in  the  dark.  But 
here  is  a  contribution  throwing  real 
light  on  the  subject,  for  the  reason 
that  it  appears  in  a  newspaper  printed 
in  the  Fatherland,  having  been  con- 
tributed by  one  Dr.  Juchenach  to  the 
columns  of  the  J^ossische  Zeitung.  in 
protest  against  the  deterioration  of 
the  German  masses  resulting  from , 
poor  substitutes  for  food.  Here  is 
Dr.  Juchenach's  article : 

"It  is  useless  any  longer  to  hide  the 
truth.  Unless  the  government  actively 
intervenes  to  put  some  control  over 
the  flood  of  substitute  foods  with 
which  we  are  overwhelmed,  the  end 
of  the  war  will  also  see  the  end  of  a 
third  of  Germany's  population.  More- 
over, the  remaining  two-thirds  will  be 
so  enfeebled  from  malnutrition  that 
they  will  be  unable  to  perform  the 
immense  tasks  of  recuperation  and 
restoration.  The  devil  alone  knows 
what  the  ingredients  of  thousands  of 
these  wretched  substitutes  that  already 
do  duty  for  butter  and  eggs,  oil  and 
milk,  flour  and  spirits,  meat  and  broth, 
coiifee  and  sugar,  tobacco  and  tea,  fish 
and  sausage,  cheese  and  cavier,  and 
so  on  without  end.  The  latest  prod- 
ucts of  the  ingenious  substitute-mon- 
gers are  really  too  terrible  to  be  tol- 
erated. A  preparation  of  crude  kero- 
sene is  now  being  largely  sold  as  fry- 
ing oil,  and  800  cases  of  serious  illness 
together  with  nine  deaths  have  been 
traced  to  its  use  in  Berlin  alone.  .V 
|)rcparation  called  "goose  dripping" 
is    ])rcjiarcd   from  dog's  fat;  egg  sub- 


stitute from  a  mi.xture  of  chalk  and 
baking  powder;  caviar  from  fish 
scales,  and  bread  from  straw.  What 
people,  no  matter  how  patriotic,  can 
hold  out  on  such  fare?" 

MILIT.^RV   TR.MNING 

.\  person  who  is  familiar  with  the 
training  which  our  soldier-boys  are  re- 
ceiving in  the  military  camps  writes 
as  follows : 

"Military  service  and  training  is 
rapidlv  transforming  irresponsible 
boys  into  self-respecting  men  in  every 
army  camp.  Boys  born  in  poverty 
that  seemingly  discouraged  ambition 
and  others  born  in  luxury  who  had 
never  known  the  compelling  force  of 
individual  effort  are  brought  together 
in  intimate  association.  Poor  lads  of 
Lincoln-like  ambition  and  '  courage 
mingle  and  hobnob  with  sons  of  ease 
and  luxury,  who  may  have  plenty  of 
the  right  stnfT  in  them  and  have  only 
lacked  incentive  to  personal  efifort. 
Here  these  boys  are — side  by  side — in 
a  great  developing  armv  of  democ- 
racv  wherein  one  man  is  exactly  as 
good  as  another,  except  as  he  proves 
in  wholesome  rivalrv  and  under  fair 
rules  his  superiority.  It  is  the  greatest 
^hing  that  has  ever  happened  to  these 
bnvs.  or  ever  could  happen  in  the  way 
of  a  lesson  in  real  democracy. 

".\  bov  has  to  find  himself.  Many 
never  find  themselves  when  compelled 
to  dig  their  wav  out  and  up  from  a 
weight  of  crushing  circumstance.  Pos- 
sibly fewer  yet  find  themselves, if  pam- 
nered  h\-  wealth  and  relieved  of  the 
strugo'Ies  that  harden  moral  fiber  and 
put  the  punch  and  "get  there"  spirit 
into  a  bov.  But  in  this  armv  of  dem- 
ocracy the  son  of  the  rich  and  poor 
wear  the  same  kind  of  clothes,  eat  the 
same  quality  of  food,  are  entertained 
bv  the  same  kind  of  annisement,  obev 
the  same  orders  on  a  baf;is  of  perfect 
cfiualitv  and  learn  to  value  each  other 
for  qualities  of  mind  and  heart,  instead 
cif  bv  anv   false  or  shallow   standard. 

"Tn  this  armv  of  dcmocracx-  ni:ni\-  a 


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Affril  li/jS 


hoy  who  formerly  went  about  with 
shuffling  gait,  caved-in  chest  and 
careless  and  slovenly  bearing  now  is 
walking  erect  and  with  firm  step  and 
self-respecting  carriage.  Many  a  snob 
is  learning  in  the  army  camp,  for 
the  first  time  in  his  life,  true  values. 
Many  a  boy  oppressed  by  a  sense  of 
inefficiency  and  failure  has  caught  a 
new  feeling  of  dignity  and  high  pur- 
pose. Love  of  country  and  devotion 
to  democracy  inspire  them  all.  Here  is 
a  great  melting  pot,  a  testing  place, 
a  school  of  manhood  and  patriotism,  a 
place  where  boys  are  quickly  grown 
into  men.  And  these  are  the  men  who 
are  to  uphold  the  dignity  and  honor  of 
a  nation  and  defend  the  liberties  of 
the  world." 

ARMY    AND    NAVY    MUST    OBSERVE    SAB- 
BATH DAY. 

Observance  of  the  Sabbath  by  all 
men  in  military  and  naval  service  has 
been  directed  by  President  Wilson.  He 
asks  that  all  Sunday  labor  be  reduced 
to  the  measure  of  strict  necessity. 


The  President,  as  commander-in- 
Chief  of  the  army  and  navy,  says  that, 
following  the  reverent  exam|)lc  of  his 
predecessors,  he  desires  and  enjoins 
the  orderly  observance  of  the  Sal)- 
bath  by  the  officers  and  men  in  the 
military  and  naval  service  of  the 
United  States.  That  the  importance 
for  man  and  beast  of  the  prescrilied 
weekly  rest,  the  sacred  rights  of  Chris- 
tian soldiers  and  sailors,  a  becoming 
deference  to  the  best  sentiment  of  a 
Christian  people,  and  a  due  regard 
for  the  divine  will,  demand  that  Sun- 
day labor  in  the  army  and  navy  be 
reduced  to  the  measure  of  strictest 
necessity. 

Such  an  observance  of  Sunday  is 
dictated  by  the  best  traditions  of  our 
people  and  by  the  convictions  of  all 
who  look  to  Divine  Providence  for 
guidance  and  protection,  and,  in  re- 
peating in  his  order  the  language  of 
President  Lincoln,  the  president  is 
confident  that  he  is  speaking  alike  to 
the  hearts  and  to  the  conscience  of 
those  under  his  authority." 


Sentiments  for   Mothers'  Day 


A  mother  is  a  mother  still — the  holiest 
thing  alive. — Coleridge. 

All  that  I  am,  my  mother  made  me. — 
J.  Q.  Adams. 

The      mother's      heart     is     the     child's 
schoolroom. — Beecher. 

A  babe  is  a  mother's  anchor. — Beecher. 

One  good  mother  is  worth  a  hundred 
school  masters. — George  Herbert. 

Youth  fades;   love  droops:  the  leaves  of 

friendship  fall; 
A  mother's  secret  hope  outlives  them  all. 
— Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

The      bearing     and    the    training   of    a 
child  is  woman's  wisdom. — Tennyson. 


A   woman's   love 
Is  mighty,  but  a  mother's  heart  is  weak. 
And  by  its  weakness  overcomes. 

— James  Russell  Lowell. 


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little    under- 


O   wondrous   power! 
stood, — 

Entrusted  to  the  mother's  mind  alone. 
To    fashion     genius,     form     the    soul   for 
good, 
Inspire  a  West,  or  train  a  Washington! 
—Mrs.   Hale. 

In  after-life  you  may  have  friends — 
fond,  dear  friends;  but  never  will  you 
have  again  the  inexpressible  love  and 
gentleness  lavished  upon  you  which  none 
but  a  mother  bestows. — Macaulay. 

All  that  I  am  or  ever  hope  to  be  I  owe 
to  my  angel  mother. — Lincoln. 


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SUNDAY  SCHOOL  WORK 


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Superintendents'  Department 


General  Superintcitdency,  Joseph  F.  Smith,  David  O.  McKay  and  Stephen  L.  Richards 

SACRAMENT  GEM  FOR  MAY,  1918 

(D.  S.  S.  Songs,  No.  115) 

In  memory  of  the  broken  flesh 

We  eat  the  broken  bread; 
And  witness  with  the  cup,  afresh, 

Our  faith  in  Christ,  our  Head. 

CONCERT  RECITATION  FOR  MAY,  1918 

(Exodus  20:12) 

Honor  thy  father  and  thy  mother:    that  thy  days  may  be  long  upon  the  land 
which  the  Lord  thy  God  giveth  thee. 


PROGRAM    FOR    MOTHERS'    DAY, 
MAY  12,  1918 

(Note. — It  is  suggested  that  in  all  de- 
partments the  first  regular  lesson  for  the 
month  be  given  May  Sth,  leaving  May 
12th  open  for  these  general  "Mothers' 
Day"  exercises.) 

1.  Preliminary  organ  music. 

2.  Abstract  of  minutes. 

3.  Notices. 

4.  Song,  "Love  at  Home." 

5.  Invocation  by  young  mother. 

6.  Appropriate  song. 

7.  Sacrament  gem. 

8.  Administration   of  Sacrament. 

9.  Concert   Recitation    (Exodus  20:12). 

10.  Music. 

11.  Carnation  service. 

All  mothers  should  be  grouped  on  the 
platform,  the  older  mothers  in  the  place 
of  honor.  To  the  accompaniment  of  soft 
organ  music  eight  Intermediate  girls, 
dressed  in  white,  should  march  to  the 
stand  and  give  to  each  mother  a  white 
carnation.  Pupils  should  then  form  in 
li.ne  on  the  platform  and  recite  the  fol- 
lowing: 

So  let  our  white  carnations  fair 
A  loving  greeting  to  you  bear. 
And  may  the  fragrant  flowers  say 
Glad  welcome  all  on  Mothers'  Day. 


School  should  then  repeat: 

For  mother,  just  for  mother 

The  white  carnation  wear, 
For  mother,  just  for  mother. 

This  day  so  bright  and  fair; 
That  God  may  bless  our  mothers. 

With  earnest  hearts  we  pray; 
Our  greetings  bring,  our  songs  we  sing 

On  Mothers'  Day. 


12. 
13. 
14. 

15. 


16. 

17. 
18. 

19. 
20. 


21. 

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Brief  story  of  Moses'  mother — Pupil 

of   First   Intermediate   department. 
Concert  Recitation — By  School  (3rd 

verse,  "O  My  Father"). 
Brief  story  of   Mary   the  mother  of 

Jesus — Pupil    Second    Intermediate 

department. 
Scripture    reading:      "My    son,    keep 

the    commandment    of    thy    father, 

and     forsake    not    the    law    of    thy 

mother"    (Proverbs  6:20) — Second 

Intermediate   class. 
Song  (D.  S.  S.,  No.  184,  suggested). 
Sentiment  by  pupil  (p.  188). 
Sentiment     by    school    or    pupil    (p. 

188). 
Sentiment  by  pupil  (p.   188). 
By  School: 

"Mother,  that  precious  name, 

Forevermore   the   same — 

Earth's  sweetest   word." 
Song.  No.  145  or  83. 
Benediction. 


Choristers  and  Organists'  Department 

Jo.u'l>h  Balhmlync,  Chairman;   Horace  S.  Ensign,  Ceo.  D.  Pypcr,  Edward  P.   Kimball 

and  Tracy  Y.  Cannon 


WORK  FOR  MAY 

On  the  Character  of  Music  Chosen  for 
Special  Programs  and  Exercises 

[By  Edward  P.  Kimball] 

I.  Purpose  of  Music  in  Worship. 

1.  To  quiet  the  feelings  preparatory 

to  worship. 

2.  To  induce  worship. 

3.  To  intensify  the  words  .of  songs. 

II.  Kind  of  Music  to  Employ. 

1.  Organ   music   that  is  appropriate 

in  spirit. 

2.  Music   of   songs    the     words    of 

which  are  in  keeping  with  the 
occasion. 

3.  So.ngs   the   words    of    which    are 

true  and  in  keeping. 
(Music    for   any    solo   instrument 
should    agree    with    the    above 
suggestions.) 

III.  Kind  of  Music  not  to  employ. 

1.  Instrumental. 

a.  Organ  music  that  disturbs  the 
worship  by  its  inappropriate- 
ness. 

b.  Music  of  songs  the  words  of 
which  are  foreign  to  the  occa- 
casion  and  which  the  school 
knows  as  such.  Note:  It  is 
important  to  remember  that  a 
great  deal  of  the  effect  of  mu- 
sic on  us  is  due  to  "associa- 
tion." Many  times  we  imag- 
ine that  it  is  the  music  itself 
that  pleases  us,  when  in  real- 
ity, we  have  learned  to  enjoy 
the  music  tlirough  associating 
it  with  the  words  to  which  it 
is  set.  Bearing  this  in  mind 
it  will  be  easily  understood 
why  no  instrument  should 
render  in  a  sacred  gathering 
the  inusic  of  purely  secular 
songs. 

2.  Vocal: 

a.  Love  songs  (no  matter  how 
beautiful  the  music  may  be). 

b.  Secular   songs. 

c.  Songs  wherein  sacred  words 
have  been  set  to  well  known 
secular  tunes.  Note:  The 
same  observation  made  imder 
"Instrumental,  b"  above  ap- 
plies here  also. 

So.ngs  for  special  programs   (if  sacred 
in    cliaracter)    should    be    appropriate    in 


words  and  spirit — the  music  should  be 
worshipful  in  character  and  the  poetry. 
Truth.  This  is  a  safe  rule  always  and  if 
followed  would  do  away  with  much  that 
is  foreign  to  worship  which  one  some- 
times hears  in  the  Sunday  School. 

Five  minute  paper  followed  by  general 
discussion. 


TR.VCY   Y.    CANNON 

Member    Deseret   Sunday   School   Union 

Board. 

MARCHING    AND     MARCH     PLAY- 
ING IN  THE  SUNDAY  SCHOOL 

[  By  Hattie  Tipton  ] 
The  discipline  of  the  Sunday  School 
is  a  very  large  factor  in  the  success  of 
the  exercises.  In  fact,  it  is  the  big  fac- 
tor, for  spirituality  and  worship  can 
never  grow  out  of  a  disorderly  condition. 
So  every  little  detail  that  will  help  in  the 


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discipline  of  the  school,  that  will  main- 
tain the  order  and  dignity  of  the  pro- 
ceedings, should  be  welcomed.  Good 
marching  is  o«e  of  these  details. 

Not  only  should  a  spiritual  atmos- 
phere pervade  our  opening  e.xercises  and 
our  class  work,  but  it  must  envelope  us 
also  when  on  our  way  to  and  from  these 
departments.  A  group  of  people  can- 
not be  dismissed  at  random,  and  allowed 
to  meander  to  the  dififerent  departments 
and  then  be  expected  to  settle  down  im- 
mediately, once  the  classroom  is  reached. 
This  is  against  human  nature.  Rushing 
helter-skelter  from  one  place  to  another, 
leaves  no  one  in  a  serious  frame  of  mind, 
ready  for  work.  One  has  to  calm  down 
first.  But  if  one  has  marched  in  an  or- 
derly and  dignified  manner  from  the  as- 
sembly to  the  classroom,  he  can  take  his 
seat  calmly  and  unobtrusively,  and  work 
ca,n  begin  immediately.  System  and  or 
der  in  every  detail  is  the  only  way  to 
have   perfect  discipline. 

Then,  too,  marching  has  the  effect  of 
putting  the  individual  in  tune  with  the 
rest  of  the  school.  His  feet  have  been 
following  the  rhythm  of  the  march  in 
common  with  everyone  else.  Each  has 
felt  the  same  harmonious  pulse  beat. 
We  are  all  in  tune.  It  is  a,n  uplifting 
sensation,  to  say  the  least. 

Now,  the  hardest  problem  in  the 
marching  question  is  that  which  con- 
fronts the  organist.  She  is  entirely 
responsible  for  the  success  of  the 
marching.  By  her  selection  of  music, 
her  march-inspiring  tempo,  her  very 
personality  as  displayed  in  the  perform- 
ing of  the  march,  she  either  makes  or 
spoils  good  marching.  So  much  depends 
on  her,  that  nothing  can  take  her  place. 
Not  even  the  chorister,  teacher,  or  other 
helpers,  who  try  to  remedy  the  situation 
by  clapping  the  time  or  droning  "left- 
right-left"  can  inspire  the  exhiliarating 
rhythm  of  the  march  into  the  congrega- 
tion, if  the  organist  fails  in  the  perform- 
ance of  her  duty.  Nothing  is  so  mad- 
dening as  trying  to  march  to  a  varying 
tempo,  a  poor  accent,  or  a  faulty  rhythm. 
If  the  organist  misses  a  beat,  feet  have 
to  be  shifted  in  order  to  get  the  "svv'ing" 
of  the  step  again.  If  she  does  this  often, 
the  children  give  up  trying  to  march  for 
"what's  the  use?"  It  is  so  deadening  to 
their  strong  sense  of  rhythm  (and  most 
people  have  it),  that  they  are  discour- 
aged. And  if  they  haven't  a  good 
rhythm  sense,  it  cannot  be  cultivated 
under  such  conditions. 

So  the  organist  must  be  fully  prepared, 
technically,  to  play  her  marches  well — 
and  above  all — she  must  feel  them.  Ev- 
ery  fibre    of   her   being   must   vibrate   to 


the  "pulse"  of  it.  She  must  be  wide 
awake,  alert,  interested!  Her  accent 
must  be  strongly  pronounced,  her  tem- 
po even  and  faultless.  She  must  play 
with  snap,  vigor,  and  vivacity! 

Now,  as  far  as  the  bare  technique  of 
a  march  is  concerned,  any  ordinary  pi- 
anist can  learn  the  notes  of  a  simple 
march,  if  she  gives  it  her  attention. 
But  that  mustn't  be  all;  she  must  prac- 
tice until  she  can  play  with  ease  and 
certainty.  There  must  be  no  wavering, 
or  faltering,  or  blurring  of  notes  in  the 
execution  of  it.  Of  course,  inexperience 
and  excitement  often  make  one  play  bad- 
ly, a  perfectly  learned  selection,  when 
really  put  to  the  test.  But  sureaiess  and 
confidence  come  with  experience,  and 
even  the  most  amateurish  can  overcome 
that  form  of  "stage-fright."  The  lamen- 
table phase  of  the  situation  is  that  so  few 
of  us  take  the  trouble  to  really  learn  a 
march.  We  are  too  phlegmatic — we 
don't  care — so  we  give  only  our  second 
best.  This  is  a  pitiable  condition,  and 
should  be  remedied. 

It  lis  generally  conceded  that  marches 
in  6-8  time  are   the   most  successful,   es- 
pecially   for    amateurs,    because    no    one 
can  mistake  their  rhythm.     They  are  in- 
vigorating   and    refreshing   in    tone,    and 
contain  a  natural  accent  to  the  melody, 
which   makes  itself  felt   without   any   ef- 
fort  on   the   part   of   the   performer.     Its 
bright,   joyful    atmosphere   is   most    con- 
ducive    to     a     good     rhythmic     response 
from  the   children,   and  it  never  fails  to 
inspire    them,    whereas    4-4    time    often 
does,  for  it  is  slower  in  melody  develop- 
ment and  less  interesting  to  most  of  us, 
although,   at   the    same   time,    it   is   more 
stately    and    majestic.      Then,    too,    it    is 
easier  to   regulate   the   right   march-tem- 
po, when  playing  in  6-8  time,  than  in  4-4 
or  2-4  time.     In  4-4  time,  one  has  to  have 
a  pretty  strong  sense  of  the  pure  march 
tempo  to  be  able  to  play  it  successfully. 
As  to   the  regulation   of  the   tempo  of 
the   march,   much   has   been   said.      Some 
people  advocate  a  different  speed  to  suit 
the  various  ages  of  the  people  in  the  Sun- 
day School.     This  seems,  to  me  absurd. 
It  is  true  that  the  audience  is  mixed.     It 
is  made  up  of  long  legs,  short  legs,  and 
middlesized  ones;   rheumatic  legs,  feeble 
ones,  and  the  tiny,  tottering  steps  of  the 
little  children;   but   still,   if  the  march  is 
played  with  an  even,  moderate  tempo,  it 
will   not    be    hard     for    all     to    get    the 
"swing"    of    it.      We    all    know    that    in 
dancing  we  have  to  suit  our  feet  to  the 
music.     In  dancing,  all  steps  are  not  of 
the   same   length   or  the   same   duration. 
There    are    quick    ones    and    slow    ones. 
Nevertheless,  we  just  "follow  the  music." 


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So,  in  our  marching,  we  can  regulate  our 
individual  steps  to  keep  time  to  the  mod- 
erate tempo,  which  is  designed  to  ac- 
comodate the  average  child.  Even  the 
littlest  children  can  follow,  with  shorter 
steps,  if  their  rhythmic  sense  is  devel- 
oped, and  if  lit  isn't,  no  tempo  in  the 
world,  fast  or  slow,  could  make  tliem  fol- 
low it,  so  there  is  no  need  to  worry 
about  them.  If  the  members  of  the 
school  feel  the  rhythm,  it  is  no  harder  for 
them   to   march   to   it,   than   to   dance   to 


dance  music.  The  only  difficulty  is  in 
making  them  first  feel  it,  and  then  in- 
spire them  enough  so  that  they  will  fol- 
low it  of  their  own  accord,  because  they 
can't  help  it.  For  this  reason,  the  or- 
ganist must  make  the  Sunday  School 
marches  as  irresistible  and  march  impel- 
ling as  she  possibly  can,  and  she  can 
only  do  it  by  hard  practice,  and  by  cul- 
tivating the  feeling  of  the  strong,  vig- 
orous march  accent. 


Teacher-Training  Department 

Milton  Bennwn,  chairman;  Howard  R.  Driggs  and  Adam  S.  Bennion 


WORK  FOR  JUNE 

Lesson   5.     The    Meaning    of    Religious 
Education. 

Religion  includes  morality  in  that  it 
has  to  do  with  man's  relations  with  his 
fellowmen.  Religion  is,  however,  more 
than  a  system  of  morals;  it  concerns  also 
man's  relations  with  God,  who  controls 
the  ultimate  destiny  of  man  and  the  uni- 
verse. Faith  in  the  ultimate  triumph  of 
righteousness,  together  with  the  possi- 
bility of  man's  having  fellowship  with 
God  in  bringing  about  this  victory,  are 
important  elements  in  religion.  The  sci- 
ence of  ethics  or  morals,  as  such,  aims  to 
build  on  a  purely  humanitarian  basis,  and 
on  this  basis  to  set  forth  the  principles  of 
human  conduct.  The  mind  of  man  can- 
not, however,  rest  there.  There  arises 
always  the  question  of  ultimate  values — 
values  that  give  deeper  meaning  to  life 
and  make  eternal  striving  for  the  good 
worth  while.  These  values  are,  thus  far, 
beyond  the  range  of  natural  science;  they 
are  determined  by  faith.  Religious  faith 
has  reference  to  the  personality  of  God 
and  his  righteousness  to  the  immortality 
of  man,  and  to  a  plan  of  salvation.  Man's 
knowledge  concerning  these  things  is 
founded  on  revelation. 

The  great  world  religions  all  base  their 
claim  to  truth  and  divinity  upon  revela- 
tion. The  body  of  revelations  claimed  by 
each  great  religious  order  constitutes  for 
it  the  scriptures.  Thus  Buddhists,  Mo- 
hammedans, Jews  and  Christians  each 
have  their  sacred  scriptures.  This  re- 
ligious literature  is  a  main  reliance  in 
religious  education.  The  Latter-day 
Saints  have  supplemented  the  ancient 
Jewish  and  Christian  scriptures  with 
other  sacred  writings,  and,  by  their  doc- 
trine of  continuous  revelation,  provide  for 
a  progressive  development  of  scripture. 

While   the   religious   education    of   the 


young  Latter-day  Saints  is  based,  in  large 
measure,  upon  scriptures,  old  and  new, 
the  doctrine  of  progress  in  religion,  or 
continuous  revelation,  makes  this  depend- 
ence upon  scripture  much  less  manifest 
than  it  is  in  other  churches. 

Religious  education  is,  of  course,  not 
confined  to  theory  or  doctrine  merely. 
It  should,  first  of  all.  be  thoroughly  prac- 
tical; but  practice  is  likely  to  be  more 
consistent  and  persistent  if  backed  by 
sound   doctrine. 

Questions  and  Exercises 

1.  (a)  Name  what  you  regard  as  the 
most  fundamental  elements  of  religion. 
(b)  Of  these,  which  would  you  classify 
as  also  elements  of  morality? 

2.  How  are  moral  principles  made 
more  eflfective  by  religion? 

3.  Besides  being  a  support  to  the 
moral  life,  what  other  values  has  religion 
for  the  individual? 

4.  Why  should  religious  training  and 
instruction  be  a  part  of  everyone's  edu- 
cation? 

5.  (a)  To  what  extent  is  the  Sunday 
School  providing  this  training  and  in- 
struction? (b)  Which  predominates  in 
the  Sunday  School,  religious  instruction 
or  religious  training  (c)  In  respect  to 
these  questions  how  can  the  work  of  the 
Sunday  Schools  be  improved? 


Lesson  6. 


The    Methods    of    Religious 
Education 


The  Sunday  School  aims  to  teach  faith 
in  and  reverence  for  all  that  is  good. 
These  qualities  should,  then,  be  charac- 
teristics of  Sunday  School  teachers  and 
teaching  methods.  Pessimism,  gloom, 
and  hate  are  foreign  to  the  spirit  of  the 
Sunday   School. 

The  first  requirement  in  methods  of 
religious   education   is   the   right   sort   of 


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character  and  personality  in  the  officers 
and  teachers.  This  implies  teaching  by 
example,  but  it  means  much  more  than 
this.  A  teacher  may  live  the  letter  of  the 
law  and  yet  be  a  poor  teacher.  This  may 
result  from  a  spirit  of  self-righteousness, 
a  tendency  to  scold,  or  a  failure  to  ap- 
preciate and  sympathize  with  the  inter- 
ests and  point  of  view  of  young  people. 
Clear  thinking,  alert  action,  good  cheer, 
and  a  sense  of  humor,  have  their  proper 
place  in  religious  as  in  other  aspects  of 
education.  Young  people  should  not  be 
made  to  feel  that  religion  is  a  dry,  som- 
ber affair. 

Much  of  the  material  used  in  religious 
instruction  is  biographical  and  historical. 
One  reason  for  this  is  because  this  ma- 
terial lends  itself  more  readily  to  meth- 
ods that  appeal  to  young  people.  The 
concrete  embodiment  of  principles  in  per- 
sons or  societies  makes  these  principles 
more  comprehensible  and  more  interest- 
ing than  any  abstract  statement  of  them. 
It  is  necessary,  however,  to  make  this 
historical  and  biographical  material  as 
realistic  as  possible.  The  characters 
studied  must  be  made  to  appeal  to  the 
pupils  as  real  persons  with  interests  and 
aspirations  akin  to  those  of  men  and 
women  of  our  own  times.  Likewise  the 
social  life  of  any  historical  period  should 
be  made  as  vivid  as  possible  through  its 
geographical  setting,  racial  characteris- 
tics and  such  other  features  as  can  be 
illustrated  by  the  use  of  maps  and  pic- 
tures. Both  the  likenesses  and  the  dif- 
ferences between  these  societies  and 
those  of  our  own  time  should  be  noted. 


In  other  words,  all  historical  and  bio- 
graphical teaching  should  be  related  to 
the  present  and  the  possibilities  of  the 
future.  No  one  is  or  should  be  interested 
in  studying  the  past  as  a  dead  past. 

Religious  education  through  study  of 
the  revealed  word  is  accomplished  with 
young  people  chiefly  through  historical 
and  biographical  studies  from  the  scrip- 
tures and  church  history.  In  the  more 
advanced  courses  young  men  and  women 
may  engage  more  successfully  in  direct 
study  of  the  doctrines  of  the  Church  as 
revealed.  One  of  the  great  teaching 
problems  here  is  to  arrive  at  the  truth 
without  being  over  dogmatic.  Excessive 
dogmatism  is  sometimes  manifest  not- 
withstanding belief  in  continuous  reve- 
lation and.  eternal  progress  even  in  the 
person  of  God  Himself. 

Questions  and  Exercises 

1.  (a)  How  can  a  teacher  improve  his 
personality  as  a  teacher?  (b)  How  may 
efforts  toward  such  improvement  reward 
the   teacher   himself? 

2.  Give  examples  of  biographical  stud- 
ies that  may  be  used  to  teach  religious 
principles  and  to  stimulate  youth  toward 
a  religious  life. 

3.  Show  how  Old  Testament  studies 
may  be  connected  with  present  day  prob- 
lems. 

4.  Show  how  incidents  from  every 
day  life  and  pupils'  experiences  may  be 
used  to  supplement  lessons  outlined. 

5.  Suggest  methods  of  securing  appli- 
cations of  lessons  taught. 


Parents    Department 


Henry  H.  Rohipp,  Chairman;   Howard  R.  Driggs    Nathan  T.  Porter  and  E.  G.  Coivans 


SPECIAL  ANOUNCEMENT 

Cooperation  has  always  been  a  strong 
keynote  with  ,our  Church.  There  was 
never  a  time  when  our  various  organiza- 
tions needed  more  to  get  together  to 
combat  the  forces  of  evil  than  right  now. 
We  are  all  working,  towards  essentially 
the  same  end — the  moral  and  spiritual 
uplift  of  the  children  of  men.  Why 
not  unite  our  forces  and  work  as  a 
team  for  results? 

Our  Church,  evidently  under  the  im- 
pulse of  these  thoughts,  has  called  to- 
.gether  a  general  committee,  called  The 
Social  Committee,  co.nsisting  of  repre- 
sentatives from  each  of  the  auxiliary 
organizations,  and  placed  upon  it  the 
duty    of    planning    lines    of    cooperative 


work  looking  towards  the  correction  of 
evils  among  us,  and  the  uplift  of  the 
membership   of  our   Church. 

Some  .of  the  work  proposed  is  directly 
in  line  of  Parents'  Class  endeavor.  It 
is  felt,  therefore,  that  our  organization 
should  cooperate  with  the  social  com- 
mittee to  forward  its  worthy  purposes. 
In  doin.g  so  we  shall  help  ourselves.  ■ 

To  the  end  of  carrying  this  into  ac- 
tion, the  following  lessons  vital  to  us 
are  ofifered  for  June.  The  Parents'  Class 
supervisors  are  asked  to  give  three  Sun- 
days during  June  to  the  lessons  in  this 
issue.  During  July  three  more  lessons, 
to  be  published  in  the  next  number,  will 
be  taken  up. 

Let  our  workers  cooperate  closely 
with  those  in  charge  of  this  social  work, 


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study   tlie   lessons   carefully,   and  act   on 
their  practical  suggestions. 

No  lesson  for  Calendar  Sunday  is  of- 
fered, the  thought  being  that  we  shall 
set  aside  all  of  our  regular  lessons  to 
work  earnestly  and  unitedly  to  reinforce 
the  social  committee.  Let  every  one 
catch  the  spirit  of  their  good  work  in  our 
behalf  and  pull  together  to  get  right 
results. — The  Parents'  Class  Committee. 


LESSONS  FOR  JUNE 
First  Sunday,  June  2 

Uniform    Fast   Day   Lesson. 

Second  Sunday,  June  9 

Sunday  Observance 

1.  The  spirit  and  obligations  of  the  day: 

Determine  here  as  definitely  as  may 
be  what  the  spirit  and  the  obligations 
of  this  day  are,  in  the  light  of  the 
following  Scripture  passages:  Ex. 
20:8-11;  Doc.  and  Cov.,  Sec.  59:9-15; 
Mark  2:27;  Luke  6:9. 

2.  Benefits  to  be  derived    from    Sunday 

observance: 

(a)  Physical. 

(b)  Mental.  , 

(c)  Spiritual. 

3.  Saturday   preparation   for   Sunday: 
(a)   In  the  home: 

(1)  Cleanliness  of  the  home. 

(2)  Clothing. 

(3)  Meals.       (See     reference    above 

Doc.  and  Cov.) 

(4)  Duties    of    father,    mother,    chil- 

dren. 

(5)  Preparation    of    Sunday    lessons 

insured. 

(6)  Day  school  lessons  (preparation 

of   them   should   be   on   Satur- 
day), 
(b)   Outside  the  home: 

(1)   111    effects    of     Saturday     night 
amusements. 

4.  Sunday      morning      preparation       for 

Priesthood    meetings    and    Sunday 
School: 

(a)  Early  rising. 

(b)  Morning  prayer. 

■(c)    Early   breakfast.       (Many   families 

dispense  with  a  regular  breakfast 

in  order  to  facilitate  attendance 

at  the  morning  meeting.) 

(d)   Resolution  to  keep  sacred  Sunday. 

5.  Sunday  meetings.    What  can  we  do  to 

assist  in: 

(a)  Promptness  in  atendance  at  meet- 

ings. 

(b)  Active  assistance  in  congregational 

singing — each   carrying   his   own 
hymn  book. 


(c)  Sitting  with  the  children  at  meet- 
ing to  keep  order.  (Children 
should  be  taught  at  home  to  be 
orderly  at  meetings.) 

(d)  Retaining  seats  in  the  spirit  of 
worship  till  after  the  benediction 
is  finished.  (Wraps  and  hats 
should  not  be  put  on  till  after 
the  benediction  is  over.) 

Third  Sunday,  June   16 
Sunday  Observance  (Continued) 

1.  Review  your  decision  as  to  what  con- 

stitutes the  spirit  and  obligations 
of  the  Sabbath.  Get  this  firmly 
fixed  in  the  minds  of  the  class  be- 
fore you  discuss  this  lesson.  (See 
Doc.  and  Cov.,  Sec.  59:9-15.) 

2.  In  what  way  does  the  spirit  of  youth 

differ  from  that  of  the  adult?  This 
difference,  of  course,  is  that  young 
persons  have  strong  tendencies  and 
impulses  for  action,  which  must  be 
directed,  not  repressed.  What 
bearing  does  the  fact  of  this  differ- 
ence have  on  plans  for  Sunday  ob- 
servance as  affecting  youth? 
i.  What  may  not  be  done  on  Sunday: 

(a)  Automobile      and      buggy      riding 

should  not  be  indulged  in  on 
Sunday  at  times  when  meetings 
which  should  be  attended  are  in 
progress. 

(b)  Pleasure  resorts  of  all  kinds  may 

not  properly  be  patronized  on 
Sunday. 

(c)  Motion  picture  shows  and  theatres 

are  in  the  same  class  as  pleasure 
resorts. 

(d)  Picnics  and  excursions  are  seldom 

if  ever  justifiable  on  the  Lord's 
day.    Never  for  pleasure  only. 

(e)  Fishing  and  hunting  should  never 

be  indulged  in  on  Sunday. 

(f)  Boisterous    games    for    children   or 

adults  are  unbecoming  the  sa- 
cred day  as  out  of  harmony  with 
its  spirit  and  purpose. 

(g)  Elaborate  dinners  requiring  much 

work  at  home  are  a  great  burden 
to  those  who  serve  them  and  do 
not   permit   our   sisters   properly 
to  observe  the  Sabbath, 
(h)   Late  rising  and  "lying  round"  the 
house  are  not  conducive   to  the 
spirit    of   worship    and    the    per- 
formance of  our  church  duties, 
(i)   Spending  money  on  Sunday  is  not 
to  be  encouraged. 
4,  ^\'hat    may   be   done   on    the    Sabbath 
day: 

(a)  Going    to    meetings     is      enjoined 

upon  us  by  the  Lord. 

(b)  Reading     of     good    books    in    the 
home  or  at  the  public  library. 


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(c)  Family   gatherings   in    the   evening 

after  meeting,  where  the  spirit  of 
worship  may  be  encouraged,  with 
appropriate  songs,  stories  and 
music. 

(d)  Good  deeds  of  any  kind,  like  visit- 

ing the  sick,  taking  flowers. 

(e)  Make    Sunday    different    from    any 

other     day;     emphasize    the    fact 
that  it  is  the  Lord's. 
5,  Other   suggestions: 

(a)  Make   a   special   effort   at  personal 

appearance  on  Sunday.  To  put 
on  our  best,  even  if  we  cannot 
go  anywhere,  is  in  itself  cultural. 

(b)  .iMso  make  a  special  effort  to  have 

the  home  looking  its  best  on 
Sunday — flowers  may  be  put  on 
Cc)  Exert  yourself  to  provide  things 
for  the  children  to  do.  Most  of 
what  is  done  on  Sunday  by  way 
of  Sabbath  observance  should  be 
for  the  children  and  the  youth; 
older  persons  can  usually  be  left  . 
to  care  of  themselves. 

Fourth  Sunday,  June  23 

Summer  Half-holiday 

(The  teacher  should  be  careful,  in  con- 
ducting this  recitation,  to  hold  every  one 
who  talks  on  the  subject  strictly  to  the 
point  on  which  he  is  supposed  to  talk. 
This  will  have  to  be  done  if  the  lesson 
is  to  be  covered.  Tact,  of  course,  must 
be  used  in  checking  any  wandering  from 
the  subjects  or  irrelevant  remarks.) 

1.  What  advantages  would  a  weekly  half- 

holiday  have  in   your  community? 
The  following  advantages  are  sug- 
gested: 
fa)   Sacred  Sunday. 
Cb)   Recreation  at  a  proper  time, 
fc)   Social   benefits   in   bringing  people 

together  in  amusements, 
(d)   Community      loyalty       (sympathy 
between      people     of      different 
ages.) 

2.  What   are   the   disadvantages    (if  any) 

of  a  weekly  half-holiday  in  your 
community? 

3.  Which  day  of  the  week  would  be  the 

best  for  a  half-holiday  in  your 
community? 

4.  What     steps     would     you    suggest   by 

which  a  weekly  half-holiday  might 
be  established  in  your  community? 
It  is  suggested  that  at  least  three 
might  be  discussed: 

(a)  Creating  popular  sentiment  for  it. 

(b)  Having  a  law  covering  the  subject. 

(c)  Getting    co-operation    of   ci\il    and 

ecclesiastical  authorities. 


5.  What  do  you  propose  shall  be  done  on 
this  weekly  half-holiday  during  the 
summer  months? 

(a)  Sunday  School  and  M.  I.  A.  Boys. 
Baseball  Leagues. 

Tennis  Teams,  Tournaments  (boys 

and  girls). 
Field     Sports — running,     jumping, 

throwing,  etc. 
Hikes. 

Scout  Work. 
Nature  Study. 

(b)  Sunday  School  and  M.  L  K.  Girls. 
Bee-Hive  Work. 

Tennis — same  as  above. 
Nature  Study. 
Field  Sports. 

(c)  Primary,   Religion   Class  and   Sun- 

day School  and  M.  L  A.  Junior 
Boys,  and 

(d)  Primary,  Religion   Class  and  Sun- 

day School  and  M.  L  A.  Junior 
(jirls. 
(Equip  playgrounds  with  swings, 
slides,  teeters,  etc.  These  to  be 
supervised  alternately  by  the 
various  auxiliary  organizations. 
It  has  also  been  suggested  that 
the  Social  Committee  recom- 
mend that  in  towns  where  there 
are  no  public  playgrounds,  ef- 
forts he  made  to  equip  one.) 

(e)  Relief  Societies  and  Ward  Officers 

and  Members   (Seniors). 

Lawn  parties,  etc.,  with  the  young 
people.  Let  the  older  members 
entertain  the  young  people,  giv- 
ing them  freedom  and  oppor- 
tunity to  engage  in  youthful 
games  and  association,  while 
throwing  in  a  higher  and  more 
serious  class  of  entertainment,  in 
order  that  a  taste  may  be  created 
for  occasional  association  by  the 
young  people  with  older  and 
more  experienced  people. 

In  addition  to  those  suggested 
above  there  may  be  provided  at 
least  one  excursion  to  some  good 
clean  resort  or  to  some  canyon 
or  other  desirable  place  for  an 
outing.  It  might  be  necessary  to 
have  two  such  excursions — one 
for  the  older  young  people  and 
one  for  the  younger.  In  every 
case  these  excursions  must  be 
properly  chaperoned  and  man- 
aged and  the  young  people  care- 
fully guarded  in  all  respects. 

If  dancing  is  indulged  in  as  a  sum- 
mer pastime  all  such  gatherings 
should  be  conducted  strictly  in 
accord  with  the  rules  heretofore 
adopted  by  this  committee,  and 
approved  and  promulgated  by 
the  General  Authorities. 


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We   recomiiiend   that  all   these  ac- 
tivities  be    conducted   under   the 
direction  of  the  Stake  and  Ward 
Social    Committees   already   pro- 
vided for. 
6.  In  what  ways  do  you  think  the  quan- 
tity and  the  quality  of  work  on  the 
other    working    days   of   the    week 
would     be     affected   by   a    weekly 
half-holiday  and  a  sacred  Sunday? 
(One    phase    of   the     subject     that 
should  come  out  of  the  discussion 
here  should  be  that  emphasis  might 
be    placed    upon    an    honest    day's 
work.) 


Fifth  Sunday,  June  30 

Note. — Let  the  local  supervisors  fill 
the  fifth  Sunday  as  the  needs  of  their 
classes  seem  to  require.  There  is  work 
enough  in  the  three  lessons  outlined  to 
fill  this  Sunday  also.  There  may  be  lo-  . 
cal  problems  closely  connected  with  the 
subject  that  call  for  solution  and  action. 
A  good  lecture  rounding  out  the  sug- 
gestions developed  may  be  given.  Let 
the  supervisors  decide  what  is  best  to 
do-  and  do  it. 


Theological  Department 


Elias  Conivay  Ashtnn,  cliainnan:  Milton   Bennion,  John  M.  Mills,  Geo.  H.   Wallace, 

Edivin  G.  Woolley,  Jr. 


Second  Year— Old  Testament 
Studies 

LESSONS   FOR   MAY 

[Outlines  by  Elias  Conway  Ashton] 

First   Sunday,   May   5 

Lesson   13.     The   Call   of   Moses 

L     The   Burning   Bush. 
H.     The  Call. 

"Moses  quakes  before  that  awful 
voice  out  of  the  midst  of  the 
bush  which  commissions  him  to 
deliver  his  brethren.  He  is  no 
longer  bold,  impetous,  impatient, 
but  timid  and  modest.  Long 
study  and  retirement  from  the 
busy  haunts  of  men  have  made 
him  self-distrustful.  He  replies 
to  the  great  I  Am.  'Who  am  I 
that  I  should  bring  forth  the 
Children  of  Israel  out  of  Egypt? 
Behold.  I  am  not  eloquent:  they 
will  mot  believe  me,  nor  hearken 
to  my  voice.'  In  spite  of  the 
miracle  of  the  rod,  Moses  obeys 
reluctantly  and  Aaron,  his  elder 
brother,  is  appointed  as  his 
spokesman." 

III.  Moses  Returns  to  Egypt. 

a.  Reception  by  people. 

b.  Moses    goes    to    Pharaoh    and 
outlines  his  mission. 

c.  The     burdens     on      Israel      in- 
crease. 

IV.  The   Miracles   of   the   Ten    Plagues. 
See  Lesso,n   14,  this  issue  of  the  Juve- 
nile, on  Miracles  (4th  Year  Theological). 

Second   Sunday,    May    12 

Uniform  "Mothers'  Day"  e-x.ercises. 


Third  Sunday,  May   19 

Lessn  14.     The  Beginning  of  the  Exodus 

I.  A  New  Type  of  Leadership  Now 
Required. 
II.  Route  of  the  E-xodus. 
III.  Wanderings  and  Trials  in  the  Wil- 
derness. 
"The  deliverance  of  a  nation  of 
slaves  is  at  last,  it  would  seem, 
miraculously  effected;  and  then  be- 
gins the  third  period  of  the  life  of 
Moses,  as  the  leader  and  governor 
of  these  superstitious,  sensual,  idol- 
atrous, degraded  slaves.  Then  be- 
gin the  real  labors  and  trials  of 
Moses;  for  the  people  murmur,  and 
are  consumed  with  fears  as  soon  as 
they  have  crossed  the  sea,  and  find 
themselves  in  the  wilderness.  And 
their  unbelief  and  impatience  are 
scarcely  lessened  by  the  tremen- 
dous miracle  of  the  submersion  of 
the  pursuing  host,  and  all  succes- 
sive miracles,  —  the  mysterious 
manna,  the  pillar  of  cloud  and  of 
fire,  the  smitten  rock  at  Horeb,  and 
the  still  more  impressive  and  awful 
wonders  of  Sinai. 

"The  guidance  of  the  Israelites 
during  these  forty  years  in  the  wil- 
derness is  marked  by  transcendant 
ability  on  the  part  of  Moses,  and 
by  the  most  disgraceful  conduct 
on  the  part  of  the  Israelites.  They 
are  forgetful,  rebellious,  childish  in 
their  hankerings  for  a  country 
where  they  had  been  more  op- 
pressed than  Spartan  Helots,  idol- 
atrous, and  superstitious.  They 
murmur  for  flesh  to  eat;  they  make 
golden  calves  to  worship;  they 
seek  a  new  leader  when  IMoses  is 
longer  on  the  I\Iount  than  thev  ex- 


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pect.  When  anj'  new  danger 
threatens  they  lay  the  blame  on 
Moses;  they  even  foolishly  regret 
that  they  had  not 'died  in  Egypt. 
"Obviously  such  a  people  were 
not  fit  for  freedom,  or  even  for 
the  conquest  of  the  promised  land. 
They  were  as  timid  and  cowardly 
as  they  were  rebellious.  Even  the 
picked  men  sent  out  to  e.xplore 
Canaan,  with  the  exception  of  Ca- 
leb and  Joshua,  reported  nations  of 
giants  impossible  to  subdue.  A 
new  generation  must  arise,  disci- 
plined by  forty  years'  experience, 
made  hardy  and  strong  by  expo- 
sure and  suffering.  Yet  what  na- 
tion in  the  world's  history  ever  im- 
proved so  much  in  forty  years? 
What  ruler  ever  did  so  much  for  a 
people  in  a  single  rei.gn?  This 
abject  race  of  slaves  in  forty  years 
was  transformed  into  a  nation  of 
valiant  warriors,  made  subject  to 
law  and  familiar  with  the  funda- 
mental principles  of  civilization. 
What  a  marvelous  chajUge,  effected 
by  the  geius  and  wisdom  of  one 
man,  in  communion  with  Almighty 
power!" 
IV.  The  Book  of  Exodus. 
V.     Appointment  of  Judges. 


14. 


'Old  Testament  Studies,"  Vol.  I,  Chap. 

Fourth  Sunday,  May  26 
Lesson   15.     Moses  at  Sinai 


I.     Preparing   for  the   Covenant. 
11.     The  Ten  Commandments. 

Analyze  them  carefully 
111.  "fn  reviewing  the  Mosaic  legisla- 
tion, we  notice  both  those  ordin- 
ances which  are  based  on  immu- 
table truth  for  the  rule  of  all  na- 
tions to  the  end  of  time,  and  those 
prescribed  for  the  peculiar  situa- 
tion and  exigencies  of  the  Jews  as 
a  theocratic  state,  isolated  from 
other  nations. 

"The  moral  code  of  Moses,  by 
far  the  most  important  and  univer- 
sally accepted,  rests  on  the  funda- 
mental principles  of  theology  and 
morality.  How  lofty,  how  impres- 
sive, how  solemn  this  code!  How 
it  appeals  at  once  to  the  conscious- 
ness of  all  minds  in  every  age  and 
nation,  producing  convictions  that 
no  sophistry  can  weaken,  binding 
the  conscience  with  irresistible  and 
terrific  bonds — those  immortal  Ten 
Commandments,  en.graven  on  the 
two  tables  of  stone,  and  preserved 
in  the  holy  and  innermost  sanctu- 


ary  of   the   Jews,   yet   re-appearing 
in  all  their  literature,  accepted  and 
reaffirmed  by  Christ,  entering  into 
the   religious   system   of   every   na- 
tion   that    has    received    them,    and 
forming  the   cardinal   principles   of 
all  theological   belief!     Yet   it   was 
by    Moses    that    these    Command- 
ments  came.      He   is   the   first,   the 
favored     man,     commissioned     by 
God  to  declare  to  the  world,  clear- 
ly and  authoritatively.  His  supreme 
power  and  majesty,  whom  alone  all 
nations   and   tribes   and   people   are 
to    worship     to     remotest     genera- 
tions.     In    it    he    fearfully   exposes 
the    sin    of    idolatry,    to    which    all 
nations     are     prone — the     one     sin 
which     the     Almighty    visits     with 
such   dreadful   penalties,   since  this 
involves,  and  implies  logically,   re- 
bellion  against    Him,    the   supreme 
ruler   of   the   universe,   and    disloy- 
alty  to   Him   as   a   personal   sover- 
eign, in   whatever  form  this   idola- 
try may  appear,  whether  in  graven 
■  images  of  tutelary  deities,  or  in  the 
worship  of  nature   (ever  blind  and 
indefinite)    or  in   the   exaltation   of 
self,  in  the  varied  search  for  pleas- 
ure, ambition,  or  wealth,  to  which 
the  debased  soul  bows  down  with 
God     amid     the     temptations,     the 
worship  of  Nature  (ever  blind  and 
indefinite),  or  in  the  exaltation   of 
grovelling  instincts,  and  in  the  pur- 
suit  of   which   the   soul   forgets   its 
higher   destiny   and   its   paramount 
obligations.      Moses   is   the   first   to 
expose  with  terrific  force  and  sol- 
emn earnestness  this  universal  ten- 
dency to   the   oblivion  ,of  the   One 
God     amid     the     temptations,     the 
pleasures,    and    the    glories    of    the 
world,   and   the   certain   displeasure 
of    the    universal    sovereign    which 
must  follow  as  seen   in  the  fall  of 
empires  and  the  misery  of  individ- 
uals from  his  time  to  ours,  the  uni- 
form doom  of  people  and  nations, 
whatever  the  special  form  of  idol- 
atry wherever  it  reaches  a  pecul'gr 
fulness   and   development, — the   v.l- 
timate  law  of  all  decline  and  ruin, 
from  which  there  is  no  escape,  'for 
the  Lord  God  is  a  jealous  God,  vis- 
iting-  the   iniquities   of   the    fathers 
upon    the    children    unto    the    third 
and    fourth    generations.'      So    sa- 
cred  and   awful   is   this   controlling 
Deity,    that    it   is    made   a    cardinal 
sin  even  to  utter  His  name  in  vain, 
in   levity  or  blasphemy.      In   order 
also  to  keep  him  before  the  minds 
of    men,    a    day    is    especially    ap- 
pointed— .one  in  seven — which  it  is 


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the  Ijoiinden  duty  as  well  as  privil- 
ege of  all  generations  to  keep  with 
peculiar  sanctity, — a  day  of  rest 
from  labor  as  well  as  of  adoration; 
an  entirely  new  institution,  which 
no  pagan  nation,  and  no  other  an- 
cient nation,  ever  recognized.  Af- 
ter thus  laying  solemn  injunctions 
upon  all  men  to  render  supreme  al- 
legiance to  this  personal  God — for 
we  can  find  no  better  word — al- 
though Matthew  Arnold  calls  it 
'the  Power  which  maketh  for  right- 
eousness'— Moses  presents  the  du- 
ties of  men  to  each  other,  chiefly 
those  which  pertain  to  the  abstain- 
ing from  injuries  they  are  most 
tempted  to  commit,  extending  to 
the  Innermost  feeling^  of  the 
heart,  for  'thou  shalt  not  covet 
anything  which  is  thy  neighbor's;' 
thus  covering,  in  a  few  sentences, 
the  primal  obligations  of  mankind 
to  God  and  to  society,  after  ex- 
panded by  a  greater  'Teacher  into 
the  more  comprehensive  law  of 
Love,  which  is  to  bind  together 
mortals  on  earth,  as  it  binds  to- 
gether immortals   in  heaven. 

"All  Christian  nations  have  ac- 
cepted these  Ten  Comandments, 
even  IMohamrriedan  nations,  as  ap- 
pealing to  the  universal  conscience, 
— not  a  mere  Jewish  code,  but  a 
primary  law,  susceptible  of  bound- 
less obligations,  never  to  be  abro- 
gated; a  direct  injunction  of  the 
Almighty   to   the   end   of   time." 


Fourth  Year— Old  Te^ament 
Studies 

LESSONS  FOR  MAY 

[Outlines  by  Elias  Conway  Ashton] 

First  Sunday,   May  5 

Lesson    13.      The    Last   Days    of   Elijah 

I.     Elijah   intercepts     King     Ahaziah's 
Messengers  to  the  Priests  of  Baal. 

a.  Prophesies  of  the  king's  death. 

b.  The  king  sends  fifty  soldiers  to 
arrest  the  prophet. 

c.  A  second  group  of  soldiers 
meets  the  same  fate. 

d.  Elijah  surrenders  to  last  group 
and  goes  before  the  king  and 
reiterates  his  prediction. 

II.     Reaction   Against    Idolatry   Is   Due 

to   Power  of  Elijah  and  Elisha. 

^^  store  the  worship  of  Jehovah,  'ajid 

"The  influence  of  Elijah,  then,  acting 

personally     through    him     and    his 


III 


successor  Elisha,  had  caused  the 
extermination  of  the  worship  of 
Baal.  But  the  golden  calves  still 
remained;'  and  there  was  no  im- 
provement in  the  political  affairs  of 
the  kingdom.  It  was  steadily  de- 
clining as  a  political  power,  wheth- 
er on  account  of  the  degeneracy 
which  succeeded  prosperity,  or  the 
warlike  enterprises  of  the  empires 
and  states  which  were  hostile 
equally  to  Judah  and  Israel.  Jehu 
was  forced  to  pay  tribute  to  As- 
syria to  secure  protection  against 
Syria;  and  after  his  death  Israel 
was  reduced  to  the  lowest  depres- 
sion by  Hazael,  and  had  not  the 
power  of  Syria  soon  after  been 
broken  by  Assyria,  the  northern 
kingdom  would  have  been  utterly 
destroyed. 

"It  was  not  given  to  Elijah  to 
foresee  the  future  calamities  of  the 
Jews,  or  to  declare  them,  as  Isaiah 
and  Jeremiah  did.  It  was  his  mis- 
sion, and  also  Elisha's,  to  destroy 
the  worship  of  Baal  and  punish  the 
apostate  kings  who  had  introduced 
it.  He  was  the  messenger  and  in- 
strument of  Jehovah  tto  remove 
idolatry,  not  to  predict  the  future 
destiny  of  his  nation.  He  is  to  be 
viewed,  like  Elisha,  as  a  reformer, 
as  a  man  of  action,  armed  with 
supernatural  gifts  to  awe  kings  and 
influence  the  people,  rather  than  as 
a  seer,  or  a  poet,  or  even  as  a 
writer  to  instruct  future  genera- 
tions. His  mission  seems  to  have 
ended  shortly  after  he  had  thrown 
his  mantle  on  a  man  more  accom- 
plished than  himself  in  knowledge 
of  the  world.  But  his  last  days  are 
associated  with  unspeakable  gran- 
deur as  well  as  pathetic  interest." 
Elijah  Translated. 

"And  it  came  to  pass,  as  they 
still  went  on  and  talked,  that  be- 
hold there  appeared  a  chariot  of 
fire  and  horses  of  fire,  which  part- 
ed them  both  asunder.  And  Elijah 
went  up  by  a  whirlwind  into  heav- 
en. And  Elisha  saw  it,  and  he 
cried  'My  father,  my  father!  the 
chariot  of  Israel,  and  the  horsemen 
thereof!'  Thou  are  the  chariot  of 
Israel;  thou  hast  been  its  horse- 
men! And  then  there  fell  from 
Elijah,  as  he  vanished  from  human 
sight,  the  mantle  by  which  he  had 
been  so  well  known;  and  it  became 
the  sign  of  that  fullness  of  divine 
favor  which  was  given  to  his  suc- 
cessor in  his  arduous  labors  to  re- 
to  prepare  the  way  for  Him  in 
whom    all    prophecy    is    fulfilled.' " 


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IV.     Elisha    Purifies    Spring. 

"Old     Testament     Studies,"     Vol.     II, 
Chap.  13. 

Second    Sunday,    May    12 

Uniform  "Mothers'  Day"  exercises. 

Third  Sunday,  May   19 

Lesson    14.     Chapter    of    Miracles 

I.     What  Are  Miracles? 

"With  some  of  the  principles  upon 
which  the  powers  of  nature  oper- 
ate, we  are  in  a  degree  acquainted; 
and  in  contemplating  them  we  are 
no  longer  surprised,  though  deeper 
reflection  may  show  that  even  the 
commonest  occurrence  is  wonder- 
ful and  strange.  But  any  event  be- 
yond the  ordinary  is  pronounced 
miraculous,  supernatural,  if  not  in- 
deed unnatural,  and  we  are  more  or 
less  awe-stricken  by  the  same. 
When  the  prophet  Elisha  caused 
the  axe  to  float  in  the  river,  be 
brought  to  his  service,  through  the 
exercise  or  the  authority  of  the 
priesthood,  a  power  superior  to 
that  of  gravity.  Without  doubt, 
the  iron  was  heavier  than  the  wat- 
er; yet  by  the  operation  of  this 
higfher  force  it  was  supported,  sus- 
pended, or  otherwise  sustained  at 
the  surface,  as  if  it  were  held  there 
by  a  human  hand,  or  rendered  suf- 
ficiently buoyant  by  attached  float- 
ers. 

"Wine  ordinarly  consists  of 
about  four-fifths  water,  the  rest  be- 
ing a  variety  of  chemical  com- 
pounds, the  elements  of  which  are 
abundantly  present  in  the  air  and 
soil.  The  ordinary  method — what 
we  term  the  natural  method — of 
bringing  these  elements  into  prop- 
er- combination  is  by  planting  the 
grape,  then  cultivating  the  vine  till 
the  fruit  is  ready  to  yield  its  juice 
in  the  press.  But  by  the  exercise 
of  a  power  not  within  purely  hu- 
man reach,  the  Savior,  at  the  mar- 
riage in  Cana,  called  those  ele- 
ments together,  and  brought  about 
a  chemical  transformation  within 
the  water-pots  of  stone,  resulting 
in  the  production  of  nure  wine. 
So.  too.  when  the  multiudes  were 
fed.  u.nder  His  priestly  touch  and 
authoritative  blessing  the  bread 
and  fishes  increased  in  substance, 
as  if  the  seasons  of  years  had 
been  consumed  in  their  growth  ac- 
cording to  what  we  consider  the 
natural  order.  Tn  henlincr  the  lep- 
rous, the  palsied,  and  the  infirm, 
the    disordered    bodily    parts    were 


brought  again  into  their  normal 
and  healthful  state;  the  impurities 
operating  as  poisons  in  the  tissues 
were  removed  by  means  more  rapid 
and  effectual  than  those  which  de- 
pend upon  the  action  of  drugs  and 
medicine. 

"Some  of  the  latest  and  highest 
achievements  of  man  in  the  utiliza- 
tion of  natural  forces  approach  the 
conditions  of  spiritual  operations. 
To  count  the  ticking  of  a  watch  a 
hundred  miles  away;  to  speak  in 
but  an  ordinary  tone  and  be  heard 
across  the  country;  to  signal  from 
one  hemisphere  and  be  understood 
on  the  other  though  oceans  roll 
and  roar  between;  to  bring  the 
lightning  into  our  homes  and  make 
it  serve  as  fire  and  torch — are  not 
these  miracles?  The  possibility  of 
such  would  not  have  been  received 
with  credence  before  their  actual 
accomplishment.  The  President  of 
the  Republic,  sitting  in  his  chair  of 
state  at  the  nation's  capital,  talks 
with  all  parts,  even  with  the  ends 
of  this  great  country;  and  if  bat- 
teries and  wire  be  in  order,  if  op- 
erators and  officials  be  true,  he  is 
rightly  informed  ,of  every  move- 
ment of  importance  anywhere  in 
the  land.  The  orbs  of  the  universe 
are  as  truly  connected  by  a  sys- 
tem of  inter-communication,  sur- 
prisingly perfect  in  its  action  and 
adaptation.  These  and  the  other 
innumerable  miracles  of  creation 
are  accomplished  in  strict  accord- 
ance with  the  laws  of  nature,  which 
are  the  laws  of  God.  But  we  must 
return  to  a  further  consideration  of 
the  specific  manifestations  of  spir- 
itual gifts  within  the  church." — 
"Articles  of  Faith,"  Dr.  Talmage, 
IT.     Water    Produced    Miraculously. 

HI.     Miracle   of  the   Oil. 

rv.     Healing  of  Leper. 
V.     .'Vn   Ax  Made  to  Float. 

"Old     Testament     Studies,"     Vol     11 
Chap.  14. 

Fourth  Sunday,  May  26 

Lesson    15.     The   Fall   of  the   House   of 
Ahab 

I.      Tchu   .'\nointed. 
II.     Priests  of  Baal   Destroyed. 
III.     A  Woman,  the  Mother'of  Ahaziah, 
Seizes    the    Reins   of    Government. 
l\^     The  Reformation  Results  in  Repair- 
ing of  Temple. 
Elisha  Concludes  His  Mission. 

(Compare   his   mission    and   labors 
with  those  of  Elijah.) 


Second  Intermediate  Department 

Harold  G.  Reynolds,  chairman;  Horace  H.  Cummings,  J.  Leo  Fairbanks,  and 

Adam  S.  Bennion 


Second  Year— Book  of  Mormon 

LESSONS  FOR  JUNE 

First  Sunday,  June  2 

Adapt  Uniform  Fast  Day  Lesson  pub- 
lished in  the  Superintendents'  Depart- 
ment. 

Second  Sunday,  June  9 

Lesson  17 

Pupils'  Text:  "The  Story  of  the  Book 
of  Mormon,"  chapter  24. 

Teachers'  Text:  Same  as  pupils',  and 
Alma,  chapters  4  to  14. 

Time:  Sixth  to  ninth  years  of  the 
reign  of  the  Judges;  B.  C.  83. 

Place:  Gideon,  Melek,  Zarahemla  and 
Ammonihah.  Locate  these  cities  on  the 
map. 

Show  the  condition  of  the  people  after 
the  war.  The  loss  of  life  and  property 
had  been  very  great.  The  people  had 
been  humbled  by  the  war.  This  might  be 
illustrated  by  the  present  sufferings  of 
the  people  ]n  Europe. 

The  Nephites  become  prosperous,  con- 
tentious and  proud. 

Alma  and  his  brethren  are  greatly  sor- 
rowed at  the  rapid  change  from  right- 
eousness to  wickedness.  He  resigns  his 
position  as  Chief  Judge,  so  that  he  can 
labor  among  the  people,  calling  them  to 
repentance. 

Nephihah  elected  to  succeed  Alma. 

Alma  preaches  in  the  synagogues,  and 
on  the  streets.  His  teachings  and  proph- 
ecy concerning  the  coming  ,of  the  Savior 
should  be  considered.  (Read  Alma,  5th 
chapter.  Have  read  in  the  class  Alma 
7:9-16.) 

People  in  Zarahemla,  Gideon  and 
Melek  receive  his  mesage.  He  is  re- 
jected at  Ammonihah.  Visited  by  an 
angel.  Have  one  of  the  pupils  read  Alma 
8:8-26.  Before  this  is  read,  point  out 
what  you  want  the  pupils  to  get  from  the 
reading.     Read  Alma  10:4-11. 

Review  briefly  some  of  the  teachings 
of  Nahor  as  the  people  in  Ammonihah 
still  believed  in  his  pernicious  teachings. 

Alma  and  .'Vmulek  warn  the  inhbitants 
of  Ammonihah. 

It  will  be  impossible  to  bring  out  all 
the  points  of  doctrine  taught  by  them, 
but  it  would  be  well  to  discuss  some  of 
them. 


Read  Alma  12  and  13.  Note  the  last 
verses  of  Chapter  13.  Read  the  discus- 
sion between  Amulek  and  Zeezrom. 
Zeezrom's  heart  is  touched,  and  his  scoff- 
ing changed  to  an  earnest  desire  to  know 
the  truth. 

Show  the  sufferings  of  Alma,  Amulek, 
and  the  believers. 

The  wonderful  deliverance.  God  man- 
ifests His  power  in  behalf  of  His  ser- 
vants. The  Lord,  in  His  mercy,  calls 
sinners  to  repentance.  The  triumph  of 
the  wicked  is  short. 

Third   Sunday,   June    16 

Lesson    18 

Pupils'  Text:  "The  Story  of  the  Book 
of  Mormon,"  Chap.  20. 

Teachers'  Text:  The  same,  and  Alma, 
chapters   IS  and   16. 

Time:  Between  tenth  and  fourteenth 
vears  of  the  reign  of  the  Judges.  About 
80  to  76  B.  C. 

Place:  Sidon,  not  far  distant  from 
Ammonihah. 

Zeezrom  and  those  .of  the  believers 
who  did  not  suffer  death  in  Ammonihah 
locate  in  Sidom.  Zeezrom  is  visited  by 
Alma  and  Amulek  and  is  healed.  (Read 
in  class  Alma  15:5-13.) 

Have  pupils  relate  incidents  of  healing 
i,n  their  own  lives  or  of  others. 

Amulek  forsakes  his  gold  and  earthly 
possessions  and  dwells  in  the  home  of 
.'Mma  in  Zarahemla.  The  Gospel  is 
dearer  to  him  than  riches. 

Ammonihah  destroyed  by  the  Laman- 
ites.  Not  one  of  the  boasting  Ammon- 
ihahites  left  to  defy  God.  Lamanites  at- 
tacked other  towns  around  borders  of 
Noah;  some  of  the  people  taken  captive. 

Show  the  great  faith  Zoram,  the  com- 
mander of  the  Nephite  army,  had  in 
God.  He  and  his  sons  go  to  Alma,  God's 
Prophet,  to  learn  his  mind.  Note  Alma's 
answer. 

Armies  of  the  Lamanites  separated 
and  those  taken  captive  were  rescued. 

Peace  is  established  among  the  Ne- 
phites.    Alma  and  Amulek. 

Fourth  Sunday,  June  23 

Lesson  19 

Pupils'  Text:  "The  Story  of  the  Book 
of  Mormon,"  chapter  26. 

Teachers'  Text:  Same  as  pupils',  and 
Alma,  chapter  30. 


Afnt  /p;« 


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201 


Place:     In  Zarahemla. 

Time:  End  of  the  seventeenth  year  of 
the  reign  of  Judges,  about  B.  C.  75. 

Review  briefly  the  knowledge  the  Ne- 
phites  had  of  the  coming  of  Christ. 

Suggestive   Outline 

Korihor,   the    Anti-Christ. 

1.  The  Appearance  of  Korihor,. 

a.    Why  his  presence  was  tolerated. 

2.  His  Preachings. 

a.  In    Zarahemla,   Jershon   and    Gid-  ' 

eon. 

b.  How  received. 

c.  His   influence. 

3.  Before  Alma,  the  High  Priest. 

a.  Interrogated  by  Alma. 

b.  Defiant    accusations    against    the 

Church  and  Alma. 

c.  Denies  the  existence  of  God. 

d.  Demands   a   sign. 

e.  Power  of  God  made  manifest. 

f.  Korihor's  admission  and  appeal. 

4.  Closing  Years  of  Korihor's  Life. 

a.  How  spent. 

b.  His  death. 

The  discussion  between  Alma  and 
Kprihor  might  be  read  in  the  class 

Show  that  the  blessings  and  power  of 
the  Lord  are  with  those  who  serve  Him. 
while  the  evil  one  forsakes  his  followers. 

Fifth  Sunday,  June  30 

Lesson  20 

Pupils'  Te-xt:  "The  Story  of  the  Book 
of  Mormon,"  Chapter  27. 

Teachers'  Text:  Same  as  pupils',  and 
.A.lma,  31  to  35. 

Lesson   to  be  outlined  by  the  teacher. 

Place:  Antonium  was  a  country  east 
of  Zarahemla  inhabited  by  the  Zoramites 
about  B.  C.  75. 

Although  Korihor  confessed  the  power 
of  the  Lord  and  acknowledged  that  he 
had  been  led  astray,  his  false  and  per- 
niciou.<:   teachings   did   not   die   with   him. 

Make  clear  that  there  were  two  classes 
of  people  called  Zoramites, 

The  Zoramites  were  the  apostate  Ne- 
phites  who  were  imder  the  leadership  of 
Zoram. 

Show  how  their  hearts  were  hardened 


against  the  truth,  and  describe  their  man- 
ner of  worship. 

Note  the  prayer  oflfered  by  the  Zor- 
amites. Alma  31:15-19.  Compare  this 
with  Luke  18:9-19. 

Show  that  true  worship  of  the  Lord 
comes  from  the  heart.  Have  read  in 
the  class  Alma  33:1-9  and  Alma  34:18-29. 

Point  out  the  difference  between  the 
prayer  of  Alma  and  that  of  the  Zoram- 
ites. 

Consider  with  the  class  some  of  the 
beautiful  truths  taught  by  Alma  and  Am- 
ulek  to  this  people. 

Show  how  good  seeds  bring  forth  good 
fruit,  and  how  faith,  the  word  of  God 
and  good  deeds  grow  and  become  as  a 
tree   springing   up   unto   everlasting   life. 

Who  were  the  Ammonites  and  how  did 
they  come  to  dwell  in  the  land  of 
Jershon? 

What  covenant  had  this  people  made 
with  the  Lord  and  how  did  they  remain 
true  to  this  covenant? 


Fourth    Year— "What   Jesus 
Taught" 

LESSONS  FOR  JUNE 

First   Sunday,  June  2 

Uniform    Fast   Day,   Exercises 

Second   Sunday,   June   9 

Lesson  17.     Baptism  By  Immersion 

Third  Sunday,  June  16 

Lesson  18.     The  Gift  of  the  Holy  Ghost 

Fourth  Sunday,  June  23 

Lesson    19.     The    Foundation    Stone 

Fifth  Sunday,  June  30 

Lesson  20.     The  Test   of  Authority 

Lesson  taken  from  new  text  book. 
"What  Jesus  Taught,"  by  O.  J.  P.  Widt- 
soe,  on  sale  at  Deseret  Sunday  School 
Union  Book  .Store,  44  E.  South  Temple 
St.,  Salt  Lake   City.     Price,  postpaid,  $1. 


First  Intermediate  Department 

Geo.  M.  Cannon,  Chairman;  Jusiah  Bununvs  and  J.  IV.  Walker 


Second  Year— Old  Te^ament 
Hi^ory 

LESSONS  FOR  JUNE 

[Prepared  by  George  M.  Cannon] 

First  Sunday,  June  2 

■  Uniform    Fast   Day   Lesson. 

Second  Sunday,  June  9 

Lesson  16.     Joshua  the  Soldier 

(B'or  the  Second  Sunday  in  June) 

Text:     Joshua  5:11  to  end;  6:1-20. 

It  will  be  remembered  that  only  two 
of  the  men  of  Israel  who  were  over 
twenty  years  old  when  they  left  Egypt 
w,ere  allowed  to  enter  the  promised  land. 
Both  of  these  men  were  wonderfully 
brave  men.  Their  names  were  Caleb 
and  Joshua.  The  strength  and  courage 
of  Caleb  was  second  only  to  that  of 
Joshua.     (See  Joshua  14:6-11.) 

Joshua  himself  was  dauntless  and  had 
boundless  faith  in  God.  His  name  means 
"Jehovah  his  help." 

Teachers  should  read  in  the  Bible  for 
their  own  information  those  portions  of 
the  Book  of  Joshua  which  explain  the 
life  of  this  great  Captain  in  Israel.  For 
the  children  we  print  Joshua  the  Soldier. 

Joshua  The  Soldier* 

Joshua  5:13  to  end;  6:1-20. 

Who  would  like  to  be  a  Soldier? 

Show  me  how  a  soldier  stands,  how 
he  salutes,  how  he  holds  his  gun  when 
marching  and  firing.  It  would  be  splen- 
did to  be  a  real  soldier,  I  think.  To 
wear  a  blue  coat  and  brass  buttons,  to 
carry  a  gun  or  to  beat  a  drum,  and  to  do 
the  fine  brave  things  a  good  soldier  is 
always  ready  for.  There  was  a  splendid 
soldier  once,  named  Joshua.  He  was 
such  a  good  soldier,  so  obedient  and 
brave,  that  he  was  given  command  of  a 
whole  army  while  he  was  still  young. 

Do  you  know  what  the  comander  of 
an  army  is  called?  A  general.  So  Joshua 
was  a  general,  but  he  didn't  wear  a  blue 
coat  or  brass  buttons,  because  he  lived 
thousands  of  years  ago  in  a  country  far 
away  from  here,  and  the  soldiers  then 
wore  loose,  brightly-colored  clothes,  with 
armor  over  them.  That  means  a  shield 
and    a    helmet,    and    pieces   of    brass    on 

*From  "Tell  Me  a  True  Story.:  Tales 
of  Bible  Heroes  for  the  Children  of  To- 
day," by  Mary  Stewart.  Copyright  by 
Fleming  H.  Revell  Company,  Publishers. 


their  arms  and  legs;  they  did  not  have 
any  guns  either,  but  they  carried  swords 
and  used  them  to  fight  with. 

One  day  Joshua  was  standing  outside 
of  a  city  which  had  a  wall  around  it.  In- 
side that  wall  there  were  hundreds  of 
men  who  hated  Joshua,  and  he  was  try- 
ing to  make  them  come  out  and  fight 
his  army.  But  they  would  not  come  be- 
cause they  were  afraid,  and  they  just 
shut  up  their  city  gates  tightly  and  would 
let  no  one  come  in  or  go  out.  There 
did  not  seem  to  be  any  way  to  make 
them  fight,  for  the  city  walls  were  so 
high  that  no  one  could  climb  over  them 
from    the    outside. 

Joshua  was  standing  there  wondering 
what  he  would  do.  As  he  looked  to- 
wards the  walls  he  saw  a  man  standing- 
near  him,  whom  he  had  not  seen  a  mo- 
ment before.  The  man  had  a  drawn 
sword  lin  his  hand,  and  Joshua  walked 
swiftly  over  to  him  and  asked,  "Art  thou 
for  us,  or  for  our  enemy?" 

The  man  answered,  "Nay,  but  as  cap- 
tain of  the  Host  of  the  Lord  am  I  now 
come." 

Then  Joshua  knew  that  he  was  talking 
to  an  angel  of  God,  and  he  fell  on  his 
face  to  the  earth  and  said,  "What  saith 
my  Lord  to  His  servant?"  He  was  a 
great  general,  you  know,  but  he  knew 
that  an  angel  from  God  was  far  greater 
than  he  was. 

The  angel  said,  "Loose  thy  shoe  from 
ofT  thy  foot — for  the  place  whereon  thou 
standest  is  holy,"  and  Joshua  did  so. 

Then  the  angel  told  him  that  God 
wanted  him  to  have  that  city  and  all  the 
men  in  it.  He  told  him  how  to  take  it. 
I  will  tell  you  what  Joshua  did  the  next 
day  and  then  you  will  know  what  the 
angel  said  to  him. 

Tnere  were  some  ministers  called 
priests  in  Joshua's  army.  They  did  not 
fight  but  they  held  services  for  the  sol- 
diers, and  they  were  to  help  Joshua  take 
the  city.  Seven  of  them  marched  out  of 
the  camp  early  the  next  morning.  They 
wore  flowing  white  clothes,  with  colored 
embroidery  and  little,  tinkling,  golden 
bells.  They  did  not  wear  any  armor,  or 
carry  swords,  but  instead  they  each  car- 
ried a  trumpet.  In  front  of  them  and 
behind  them  marched  the  soldiers,  their 
armor  shining  in  the  sun,  their  swords 
clanging  at  their  sides. 

All  inarched  slowly  around  the  walled 
city,  and  as  they  marched  the  priests 
blew  on  their  trumpets.  Except  for  that 
there  was  no  noise,  and  nobody  spoke  a 
word.      When  they  had  marched  all  the 


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vva}'  around  they  went  back  to  the  camp. 

The  second  day  the  same  thing  hap- 
pened, and  the  people  inside  the  city 
walls  must  have  wondered  what  it  meant. 
The  long  line  of  soldiers  marching  so 
quietly,  then  the  priests  blowing  the 
trumpets  as  they  marched,  and  after 
them  more  quiet  soldiers.  They  did  not 
know  that  an  angel  of  God  had  told 
Joshua  to  do  this,  and  that  very  soon 
they  and  their  city  would  be  in  his  hands. 
Every  day  for  six  days  Joshua's  army 
marched  once  around  the  city  and  back 
to  the  catnp  but  on  the  seventh  day  the 
line  did  not  g:o  back.  They  wgnt  on 
marching,  until  they  had  been  around 
seven  times. 

Then  Joshua  said  to  his  men,  "Shout 
now,  for  the  Lord  has  given  you  the 
city,"  and  while  the  priests  blew  upon 
their  trumpets,  the  whole  army  gave  a 
great  shout,  and  behold  the  wall  of  the 
ctiy  fell  down  flat!  Then  the  soldiers 
rushed  in  and  took  the  people  prisoners. 

So  God  gave  the  city  to  Joshua  and 
his  army,  and  I  think  that  one  of  the  rea- 
sons He  did  it  was  because  of  Joshua's 
quick  obedience  in  doing  just  what  the 
angel  told  him  to  do. 

Shall  we  all  try  to  be  good  soldiers, 
obeying  our  mothers  and  fathers  and 
teachers,  quickly,  when  they  speak  to  us"^ 

Third   Sunday,  June   16 

Lesson  17.     Samuel  the  Boy  Prophet 

Text:      I  Samuel  1;  2;  3. 

In  our  day  (that  is  in  modern  times) 
our  Heave.nly  Father  answered  the 
prayer  of  the  boy  prophet  Joseph  Smith. 
and  appeared  to  him  in  a  glorious  vision 
and  spoke  to  him.  And  the  Bible  tells 
us  of  a  message  delivered  in  ancient 
times  to  a  pure  and  honest  boy  in  the 
Temple.  How  this  boy  came  to  be  dwell- 
ing in  the  Temple  is  told  in  the  Bible  in 
the  first  three  chapters  of  the  First  Book 
of  Samuel. 

Elkanah  was  a  devout  Israelite  who 
went  yearly  to  the  Temple  to  worship. 
He  had  two  wives  and  one  wife  had 
children:  but  his  other  wife  whose  name 
was  Hannah,  had  no  children.  Now  it 
is  natural  and  right  that  all  good  people 
should  love  cliildren:  and  so  all  good 
wives  long  to  have  children  of  their  own. 
It  is  a  great  joy  to  a  mother  to  take  tlie 
tiny  little  one  in  her  arms,  and  hug  it  to 
her  breast,  and  to  soothe  it  and  to  sing 
it  to  sleep.  And  to  watch  it  grow;  and 
to  see  it  begin  to  take  notice  what  goes 
on  around  it.  How  many  of  you  have 
seen  your  mother  laugh  and  teach  the 
baby  to  laugh  in  return.  And  how  you 
all  listen   to  hear  baby's  first  word;  and 


watcli  to  see  liaby's  first  tooth;  and  his 
lirst  walk  across  tlie  room! 

And  so,  although  Elkanah  and  his  fam- 
ily visited  the  Temple  year  by  year,  and 
although  he  was  very  kind  to  Hannah, 
still  she  did  not  have  any  children,  and 
so  she  grew  each  year  more  and  more 
sad  and  finally  wept  and  did  not  eat. 

"Then  said  Elkanah  her  husband  to 
lier:  Hannah,  why  weepest  thou?  And 
why  eatest  thou  .not?  And  why  is  thy 
heart  grieved?  Am  not  I  better  to  thee 
than  ten  sons?" 

And  her  husband  continued  to  be  very 
kind  to  Hannah,  and  to  comfort  her. 
.\nd  she  went  into  the  Temple,  and  there 
vowed  a  vow  that  if  the  Lord  would  re- 
member her  and  not  forget  her,  but 
would  give  her  a  baby  boy  that  she 
would  give  him  unto  the  Lord  all  the 
days  of  his  life.  She  felt  so  strongly 
upon  this  subject  that  she  prayed  and 
prayed;  but  she  "spake  only  in  her  heart; 
only  her  lips  moved,  but  her  voice  was 
not  heard,"  and  therefore  Eli  the  Priest 
who  had  charge  and  presided  over  the 
Temple,  thouglit  she  was  drunken,  and 
rebuked  her  and  said; 

How  long  wilt  thou  be  drunken?  Put 
away  thy  wine  from  thee." 

"And  Hannah  answered  and  said:  No, 
my  lord,  I  am  a  woman  of  a  sorrowful 
spirit:  I  have  drunk  neither  wine  nor 
strong  drink,  but  have  poured  out  my 
soul  before  the  Lord.     *     *     * 

"Then  Eli  answered  and  said:  Go  in 
peace;  and  the  God  of  Israel  grant  thee 
thy  petition,  that  thou  hast  asked  of 
llim.  *  *  *  And  Hannah  went  her 
way,  and  did  eat,  and  her  countenance 
was  no  more  sad."  And  she  and  her 
husband  rose  up  early  the  next  morning, 
and  worshiped  before  the  Lord,  and  re- 
turned to  their  home. 

.•\nd  Hannah's  prayer  was  answered; 
and  in  due  time  the  promise  of  the  ser- 
vant of  the  Lord  was  fulfilled,  and  she 
had  a  little  baby  boy,  and  she  called  his 
name  Samuel,  which  meant  "asked  of 
God."  We  may  be  sure  that  Hannah 
took  splendid  care  of  the  little  fellow  and 
nursed  him  herself.  She  did  not  go  to 
the  Temple  next  year,  but  stayed  at 
home  for  his  sake.  She  remembered  her 
vow.  Although  she  loved  him  dearly 
she  meant  to  keep  her  promise,  and  told 
her  husband  when  he  was  going  on  his 
usual  visit  to  the  Temple  that  she  would 
remain  at  home  until  the  child  was 
weaned,  and  said:  "Then  1  will  bring 
llim,  that  he  may  appear  before  the  Lord, 
and  there  abide  forever."  And  her  hus- 
band told  her  to  do  what  seemed  t.2 
her  best.  And  when  the  little  boy  was 
weaned  his  mother  took  him  up  to  the 
Temple  with  her;  and  took  presents  for 


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the  'I'cniplc,  and  offerings  lo  the  Lord 
according  to  His  law.  And  she  brought 
the  child  to  Eli  the  High  Priest  in  the 
leniple  and  told  him  that  she  was  the 
woman  whom  he  had  spoken  to  in  the 
Temple  at  the  time  she  prayed  there; 
and  that  th.e  child  had  been  given  to 
her  in  answer  to  her  prayer,  and  said: 
"Therefore  also  I  have  lent  him  to  the 
],ord:  as  long  as  he  liveth,  he  shall  be 
lent  to  the  Lord."  And  he  worshiped 
the  Lord  there. 

Have  any  of  you  children  ever  been 
away  from  home  and  from  father  and 
mother?  If  father  and  mother  are  with 
us,  we  feel  like  we  are  home.  But  even 
when  we  are  in  nice  places  and  with  nice 
people,  and  are  away  from  father  and 
mother  for  the  first  time  we  are  apt  to 
be  homesick  for  mother.  Like  the  little 
boy  whose  mother  had  been  away  for  a 
week,  and  the  little  poem  makes  him 
say; 

"It  seems  like  two, 
I  never  knew 
So  long  a  week  as  this!" 

Doubtless  little  Samuel  felt  this  same 
feeling.  But  his  mother  had  taught  him 
about  God's  house,  the  Temple,  and  that 
it  was  a  great  honor  to  work  therein. 
Even  though  his  duties  were  small  and 
although  he  was  e.xpected  to  help  keep 
tlie  house  in  order  and  to  wait  upon  the 
High  Priest,  and  to  run  when  the  Priest 
called,  he  had  been  told  that  it  was  an 
honor  to  be  even  "a  doorkeeper  in  the 
House  of  the  Lord."  And  so  he  was 
happy  in  his  work,  and  the  Bible  tells 
us  that  after  Elkanah  (and  Hannah)  had 
gone  "the  child  did  minister  unto  the 
Lord  before  Eli  the  priest."  If  he  was 
homesick  and  if  when  night  came  he  felt 
lonely  for  his  kind  mother,  he  was  busy 
ne.xt  morning,  and  his  work  made  his 
troubles  seem  light  as  air.  If  we  have 
troubles  but  are  well,  work  will  make  us 
forget  our  troubles.  You  boys,  if  faith- 
ful, and  perhaps  some  of  the  girls,  too, 
will  be  called  on  missions.  Some  of  you 
may  have  to  go  half  way  round  the 
world;  and  some  of  you  may  be  called 
as  was  President  Joseph  F.  Smith  to  go 
on  missions  to  the  islands  of  the  sea.  If 
you  are  sent  on  such  missions  it  will  be 
well  for  you  if  your  mother  has  taught 
you  as  President  Smith's  mother  taught 
him,  that  duty  to  God  and  His  cause  was 
the  first  thing  to  be  considered;  and 
that  from  that  duty  he  must  not  shrink 
even  though  it  took  him  across  deserts, 
and  distant  lands  and  stormy  seas;  but 
that  God  would  be  near  him  to  preserve, 
and  to  sustain  and  to  save  him. 

Some    such    lessons   as    these     Hannah 


had  also  given  the  boy  Samuel.  And 
so  the  Bible  says:  "But  Sanuiel  minis- 
tered before  the  Lord,  being  a  child, 
girded  with  a  linen  ephod."  (A  kind  of 
garment  embroidered  and  ornamented 
and  worn  by  the  Priest  in  the  Temple.) 

The  Bible  also  says:  "Moreover  his 
mother  made  him  a  little  coat,  and 
brought  ;it  to  him  from  year  to  year, 
when  site  came  up  with  her  husband  to 
offer  the  yearly  sacrifice." 

."Xnd  the  Priest  Eli  blessed  Elkanah 
and  Hannah  his  wife,  and  promised  them 
otlier  children  for  the  one  which  Han- 
nah had  lent  to  the  Lord. 

And  after  this  Hannah  had  three  other 
sons  and  two  daughters.  "And  the  child 
Samuel  grew  before  the  Lord." 

Now  Eli  was  very  old  and  he  had  sons 
who  instead  of  being  righteous  and  work- 
ing in  the  Temple  as  they  were  entitled 
to  do  and  should  have  done,  sinned 
against  the  Lord.  Not  only  were  they 
greedy  and  took  for  themselves  what 
was  intended  as  an  offering  to  the  Lord, 
but  they  were  wicked  in  other  ways.  ' 
Their  father  talked  to  them  about  these 
things  and  still  they  kept  on  in  their 
V.  ickedness. 

".\nd  the  child  Samuel  grew  on,  and 
was  in  favor  both  with  the  Lord,  and 
also  with  men." 

.■\nd  a  man  of  God  came  to  Eli  and 
warned  him  that  if  his  sons  did  not  re- 
pent they  would  bring  destruction  upon 
themselves  while  "in  the  flower  of  their 
age."  And  that  God  would  raise  up  one 
who  would  be  faithful  and  who  would 
honor  him;  and  that  all  that  were  left  of 
Eli's  house  would  have  to  seek  favors 
from  the  faithful  one  and  to  beg  him  "for 
a  piece  of  silver  and  a  morsel  of  bread." 

".And  the  child  Samuel  ministered  unto 
the  Lord  before  Eli.  And  the  word  of 
the  Lord  was  precious  in  those  days; 
there  was  no  open  vision. 

"And  it  came  to  pass  at  that  time, 
when  Eli  was  laid  down  in  his  place,  and 
his  eyes  began  to  wax  dim,  that  he  could 
not   see; 

".And  ere  the  lamp  .of  God  went  out  in 
the  temple  of  the  Lord,  where  the  ark 
of  God  was,  and  Samuel  was  laid  down 
to  sleep; 

"That  the  Lord  called  Samuel:  and  he 
answered.  Here  am  I. 

".And  he  ran  unto  Eli,  and  said.  Here 
am  I;  for  thou  calledst  me.  And  he  said, 
I  called  not;  lie  down  again.  .And  he 
went  and  lay  down. 

"And  the  Lord  called  yet  again,  Sam- 
uel. -And  Sanuiel  arose,  and  went  to  Eli. 
and  said,  Here  am  I;  for  thou  didst  call 
me.  And  he  answered,  I  called  not,  my 
son;  lie  down  again. 

"Now   Samuel   did   not   yet   know    the 


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Lord,  neither  was  the  word  of  the  Lord 
yet  revealed  unto  him. 

"And  the  Lord  called  Samuel  again 
the  third  time.  And  he  arose,  and  went 
to  Eli,  and  said,  Here  am  I:  for  thou 
didst  call  me.  And  Eli  perceived  that 
the  Lord  had  called  the  child. 

"Therefore  Eli  said  unto  Samuel,  Go, 
lie  down:  and  it  shall  be,  if  he  call  thee, 
that  thou  shalt  say.  Speak,  Lord;  for  thy 
servant  heareth.  So  Samuel  went  and 
lay  down  in  his  place. 

'Wnd  the  Lord  came,  and  stood,  and 
called  as  at  other  times,  Samuel,  Samuel. 
Then  Samuel  answered.  Speak;  for  thy 
servant  heareth. 

"And  the  Lord  said  to  Samuel,  Be- 
hold, I  will  do  a  thing  in  Israel,  at  which 
both  the  ears  of  every  one  that  heareth 
it  shall  tingle. 

"In  that  day  I  will  perform  against  Eli 
all  things  which  I  have  spoken  concern- 
ing his  house:  when  I  begin,  I  will  also 
make  an  end. 

"For  I  have  told  him  that  I  will  judge 
his  house  for  ever  for  the  iniquity  which 
he  knoweth;  because  his  sons  made 
themselves  vile,  and  he  restrained  them 
not. 

"And  therefore  I  have  sworn  unto  the 
house  of  Eli,  that  the  iniquity  of  Eli's 
house  shall  not  be  purged  with  sacrifice 
nor  offering  for  ever. 

"And  Samuel  lay  until  the  morning, 
and  opened  the  doors  of  the  house  of 
the  Lord:  and  Samuel  feared  to  show 
Eli  the  vision. 

"Then  Eli  called  Samuel,  and  said, 
Samuel,  my  son.  And  he  answered.  Here 
am  L 

"And  he  said.  What  is  the  thing  that 
the  Lord  hath  said  unto  thee?  I  pray 
thee  hide  it  not  from  me:  God  do  so  to 
thee,  and  more  also,  if  thou  hide  any 
thing  from  me  of  all  the  things  that  He 
said  unto  thee. 

"And  Samuel  told  him  every  whit  ,and 
hid  nothing  from  him.  .And  he  said.  It  is 
the  Lord:  let  Him  do  what  seemeth  Him 
good. 

"And  Samuel  grew,  and  the  Lord  was 
with  him,  and  did  let  none  of  his  words 
fall  to  the  ground. 

"And  all  Israel,  from  Dan  even  to 
Beersheba,  knew  that  Samuel  was  es- 
tablished to  be  a  prophet  of  the  Lord. 

".And  the  Lord  appeared  again  in 
Shiloh:  for  the  Lord  revealed  Himself 
to  Samuel  in  Shiloh  by  the  word  of  the 
Lord." 

.And  so  a  little  boy  who  kept  himself 
pure  and  was  diligent  before  the  Lord, 
and  whose  mother  had  taught  him  cor- 
rect principles  became  one  of  the  great- 
est of  ancient  prophets.  We  shall  meet 
him  later,  and  know  him  as  the  one  who 


at   God's   command   anointed   kings   over 
Israel. 

Fourth  Sunday,  June  23 

Lesson  18.     Ruth 

(For  the  Fourth  Sunday  in  June) 

Te.xt:  Ruth  I;  2;  3,  and  4;  the  entire 
book. 

Among  the  characters  of  the  Bible 
there  is  no  more  striking  personage  to 
illustrate  fidelity  to  the  family  of  one's 
husband  or  wife  than  that  of  Ruth. 

The  teacher  should  read  the  entire 
book  for  sake  of  information;  and  we 
suggest  that  the  pupils  all  memorize  the 
beautiful  answer  that  Ruth  made  to 
K'aomi  her  mother-in-law,  when  the  lat- 
ter asked  her  to  return  to  her  own  fam- 
ily, and  friends: 

"And  Ruth  said,  Entreat  me  not  to 
leave  thee,  or  to  return  from  following 
after  thee:  for  whither  thou  goest,  I  will 
go;  and  where  thou  lodgest,  I  will  lodge: 
thy  people  shall  be  my  people,  and  thy 
God  my  God: 

"Where  thou  diest  will  I  die,  and  there 
will  I  be  buried:  the  Lord  do  so  to  me. 
and  more  also,  if  ought  but  death  part 
thee   and  me." 

The  relationship  between  Naomi  and 
Ruth  is  not  clearly  set  forth  in  the  story 
below  given.  That  can  be  explained  by 
the  teacher  and  why  .  the  two  young 
women  were  with  Naomi.  Both  Ruth 
and  Naomi  showed  remarkable  consid- 
eration for  each  other,  and  from  the 
Bible  we  get  the  name  of  Ruth's  son 
which  was  Obed,  the  father  of  Jesse  the 
Bethlehemite,  and  therefore  the  grand- 
father of  David  who  became  king. 

The  Story  of  Ruth* 

Book  of  Ruth. 

It  was  a  sad  woman  who  once  started 
ofi  on  a  journey  with  two  girls.  She 
wore  a  long  black  dress,  and  black  veil 
wound  around  her  head,  and  her  eyes 
were  full  of  tears.  Her  name  was 
Naomi.  Her  husband  was  dead,  her  two 
boys  had  just  died,  and  she  was  going 
y  ack  to  the  country  where  she  had  lived 
when  she  was  a  child.  The  two  girls 
who  were  with  her  were  girls  she  loved 
very  much,  who  had  been  very  good  to 
her  and  her  boys,  but  after  she  had  gone 
a  little  way  with  them  she  stopped  and 
said: 

"Go  back  to  your  homes  now,  to  your 


*From  "Tell  Me  a  True  Story:  Tales 
of  Bible  Heroes  for  the  Childre,n  of  To- 
day," by  Mary  Stewart.  Copyright  by 
Fleming  H.  Revell  Company,  Publishers. 


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brothers  and  sisters  and  friends,  i  am 
Roing  to  a  far-away  country  you  have 
never  seen.  It  makes  me  sadder  still  to 
say  good-bye  to  you,  but  I  know  you 
will  be  happier  there." 

Then  one  of  the  girls  kised  her  good- 
bye, and,  turning,  went  back  to  her 
home,  but  the  other,  whose  name  was 
Ruth,  put  her  arms  around  her  and  said: 
"Intreat  me  not  to  leave  thee,  for 
whither  thou  goest  I  will  go,  and  where 
thou  lodgest  I  will  lodge;  thy  people 
shall  be  ray  people  and  thy  God  my 
God." 

Naomi  said.  "Can  you  bear  to  leave 
your  home  and  friends  to  go  and  take 
care  of  a  poor  old  woman?" 

Ruth  said,  "I  am  young  and  strong, 
you  are  old  and  sad;  I  will  go  with  you 
and  take  care  of  you  as  long  as  we  both 
live." 

So  they  traveled  on  together,  walking 
many  miles,  over  hills  and  across  plains, 
in  the  sun  and  rain,  sleeping  under  the 
stars,  perhaps,  until  they  came  to  a  little 
town  among  the  hills,  the  town  of  Beth- 
lehem. They  looked  down  on  it  and  saw 
that  the  fields  were  full  of  tall,  yellow 
stalks  of  vi'heat  and  barley.  Ruth  left 
Naomi  in  a  little  house  they  found  and 
went  out  into  the  barley  fields;  there  the 
men  had  sickles,  and  mowed  the  grain, 
and  the  women  gathered  it  up  in  bundles. 
Poor  people  sometimes  walked  after  the 
women  and  picked  up  what  they  dropped. 
So  Ruth  followed  them,  picking  up 
pieces  of  the  long  yellow  stalks,  with  the 
barley  in  the  flower  part  at  the  top.  It 
was  hard  work,  for  the  sun  beat  down, 
and  she  had  to  bend  and  bend.  But  she 
thought  of  poor  sad  Naomi,  who  was 
hungry,  and  then  Ruth  did  not  mind  if 
she  was  tired  and  hot,  she  worked  on 
gladly. 

Towards  evening  the  owner  of  the 
field  came  to  see  how  the  reapers  were 
working.  He  raised  his  hand  and  said, 
"The  Lord  be  with  thee."  And  all  the 
men  and  women  in  the  field  stopped 
working  and  answered:  "The  Lord 
bless   thee." 

Then  the  master  saw  Ruth.  She  wore 
a  blue  skirt  and  a  red  jacket,  a  veil  was 
twisted  around  her  neck,  and  gold  coins 
glittered  among  her  hair.  The  master 
asked  one  of  the  reapers  who  she  was, 
and  the. reaper  said:  "Her  family  and 
friends  live  in  a  country  far  from  here, 
but  she  has  left  them  all  a.nd  traveled 
here  to  take  care  of  the  poor,  sad 
woman,  Naomi."  So  the  master  called 
Ruth  to  him  and  told  her  to  come  every 
day  and  pick  up  the  barley  which  was 
dropped,  and  aIs,o  to  have  dinner  in  the 
middle  of  the  day  with  his  workmen,  and 
tat  the  corn  and  the  bread  he  gave  them. 


Ruth  Ijowcd  lo«  to  him  and  asked: 
"Why  art  thou  so  kind  to  me,  I,  who  am 
a   stranger?" 

/\nd  the  master  said,  "Because  1  know 
how  thou  hast  left  thy  father  and  thy 
mother  and  thy  home  to  take  care  of  a 
poor,  sad  woman.  May  the  Lord  bless 
thee  and  reward  thee." 

As  he  walked  away  across  the  field  he 
stopped  and  told  the  reapers  to  let  Ruth 
gather  the  barley  that  was  dropped,  and 
also  to  let  fall  some  extra  pieces  for  her. 
So  day  after  day  Ruth  came  to  gather 
grain.  She  lived  with  Naomi,  and  each 
night  she  brought  her  back  the  barley, 
and  made  it  into  bread  for  them. 

As  day  after  day  the  owner  watched 
her,  he  saw  how  good  she  was  and  how 
hard  she  worked  for  Naomi,  and  one  day 
he  asked  her  to  marry  him,  and  to  bring 
Naomi  to  live  in  his  big  comfortable 
home.  There  they  were  all  very  happy 
together;  soon  God  sent  Ruth  a  baby 
boy,  and  when  Naomi  held  it  in  her  arms 
she  was  comforted  for  the  loss  of  her 
own  boys,  and  thanked  God  for  His  care 
of  her  and  of  her  dear  Ruth.  This  tiny 
baby  became  the  grandfather  of  a  little 
hoy  named  David.  We  shall  have  a  story 
about  him  soon. 

Fifth   Sunday,  June   30 
Review. 


Fourth  Year— "Lives  of  the  An- 
cient Apo^les." 

LESSONS  FOR  JUNE 
First  Sunday,  June  2 

Uniform  Fast  Day  Lesson 

Second  Sunday,  June  9 

Lesson  16.  The  Third  Imprisonment 

References:     Acts  12:1-19. 

Aim:  Sincere  prayer  always  brings  a 
blessing.  The  blessing  may  be  remote, 
but  it  always  comes  in  answer  to  the 
prayer  of  faith. 

1.  Another  wicked  Herod. 

a.  Herod  Agrippa. 

(1)  Grandson  of  Herod  the  Great. 

(2)  Nephew  of  Herod  Antipas. 

b.  Murderer  of  James. 
(1)   Effect  upon  Jews. 

2.  Peter's  Imprisonment. 

a.  Object. 

b.  How  guarded. 

c.  Effect  upon   Saints. 

3.  The  Saints  in  prayer. 


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a.  Those   participating. 

b.  At  Mary's. 

4.  Peter's  deliverance. 

a.  By  whom. 

b.  Details. 

5.  Peter  joins  the  praying  assembly. 

a.  Rhoda. 

b.  Surprise  of  the  Saints. 

c.  Peter's  testimony. 

d.  Peter's  departure. 

Questions. 

1.  Who  was  Herod  Agrippa 

2.  Why  did  he  imprison  Peter? 

3.  When  did  he  purpose  killing  Peter? 

4.  How  was  Peter  strongly  guarded  in 
prison? 

5.  How  was  their  prayer  answered? 

6.  What  was  Rhoda's  experience? 

7.  What  did  Herod  do  to  the  keepers 
of  the  prison? 

8.  What  became  of  Herod? 

9.  Show  the  benefits  of  prayer. 

Note. — A  most  interesting  lesson,  the 
climax  of  which  is  reached  in  the  deliv- 
ery of  Peter  from  prison  by  an  angel. 
The  value  and  importance  of  prayer  is 
most  impressively  tau.ght,  and  could  be 
supplemented  by  examples  from  the  lives 
of  our  leaders,  incidents  in  Church  his- 
tory, or  the  experiences  of  the  teacher. 

Third  Sunday,  June  16 

Lesson   17.     Closing  Scenes  of  a  Right- 
eous Ministry 

References:     Acts  15:1-35:  Gal.  2:7-21. 

Aim:  Obedience  to  the  Gospel  makes 
one  fearless  in  defending  the  right  and 
brings  the  greatest  comfort  at  approach- 
ing death. 

1.  Retrospective. 

a.   Effect    of    ministry    upon    Peter's 
character. 

2.  At  the  Council  in  Jerusalem. 

a.  The  disputation. 

b.  Those  present. 

c.  Peter's  testimony. 

3.  Peter  visits  different  churches. 

a.  Incident  at  Antioch. 

4.  Traditions  of  Peter's  last  days. 

a.   His   imprisonment   and   death. 

Questions. 

1.  What  effect  did  Peter's  labors  in  the 
Church  have  upon  his  character? 

2.  Name  some  of  the  attributes  of  his 
character. 

3.  How  was  this  character  formed? 

4.  What  does  a  "fisher  of  men"  mean? 

5.  Where  were  the  Saints  first  called 
"Christians?" 

6.  Show  that  the  term  "Christian"  was 

d.  Her  I'cquest  of  Tesus. 
(1)   Effect. 


held  in  derision  then,  as  "Mormon"  is 
today. 

7.  Upon  what  two  important  occa- 
sions did  Peter  defend  the  right  even 
a,gainst  his  Jewish   beliefs? 

8.  Relate  the  closing  scenes  of  his  min- 
istry. 

9.  What  legend  is  told  of  his  death? 
Notes. — ^"In    temperament     Peter     was 

impulsive  and  stern,  and  until  trained  by 
severe  experience,  was  lacking  in  firm- 
ness. He  had  many  human  weaknesses, 
yet  in  spite  of  them  all  he  eventually 
overcame  the  temptations  of  Satan  and 
the  frailities  of  the  flesh,  and  served  his 
I.ord  as  the  appointed  and  acknowledged 
leader  of  the  Twelve." — (Elder  J.  E. 
Talmage,  "Jesus  the  Christ.") 

"Peter,  James  and  John  belonged  to 
the  innermost  circle  ,of  our  Lord's  asso- 
ciates and  friends.  They  alone  were  ad- 
mitted into  His  presence  when  He  raised 
the  daughter  of  Jairus,  and  at  His  trans- 
figuration, and  during  the  agony  in  the 
garden." — (Farrar,  "The  Life  of  Christ," 
p.  135.) 

"He  did  not  scruple  to  commit  His 
cause  to  twelve  simple  men,  destitute  of 
learning  and  belonging  to  the  common 
l.eople.  He  made  the  selection  after  a 
ni.ght  spent  in  prayer,  and  doubtless 
after  many  days  of  deliberation.  The 
event  showed  with  what  insight  into 
character  He  had  acted.  They  turned, 
out  to  be  instruments  thoroughly  fitted 
for  the  great  design:  two  at  least,  John 
and  Peter,  were  men  of  supreme  gifts: 
and,  though  one  turned  out  to  be  a 
traitor,  and  the  choice  of  him  probably, 
after  all  explanations,  ever  remains  a 
very  partially  explained  mystery,  yet  the 
selection  of  agents  who  were  at  first  so 
unlikely,  but  in  the  end  proved  so  suc- 
cessful, will  always  be  one  of  the  chief 
monuments  .of  the  incomparable  original- 
ity of  Jesus.". — (Stalker,  "The  Life  of 
Jesus   Christ.") 

Fourth  Sunday,  June  23 
Lesson   18.     James,  the   Son  of  Zebedee 

References:  Matt.  4:21;  27:56;  Mark 
1:19:   15:40;  Luke  9:52-54:  Acts  12:1,2. 

Wm:  The  Lord  chooses  men  from 
merit,  and  honors  them  only  as  they 
prove  themselves  worthy  and  capable  of 
serving  their  fellow  men.  "Honor  is  not 
a  matter  of  any  man's  calling  merely, 
but  rather  of  his  own  actions  in  it." 
1.  The  mother. 

a.  Her  devotion  to  Christ. 

b.  Her  pride  in  her  sons. 

c.  Effect  upon   sons. 

(1)   "Happy       he       with       such      a 
mother." 


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2.  At    Rethsaida. 

a.  James'  home. 

b.  His  trade. 

c.  How  he  met  Jesus. 

d.  The  call. 

,1  As  one  of  the  Twelve. 

a.  How  favored. 

(1)   Relate   incidents. 

b.  His  nature. 

(1)   A  son  of  thunder. 

c.  His  zeal. 
4.  Martyrdom. 

a.  Time. 

b.  By  whom. 

c.  His   character   as   revealed   at   the 


trial. 


Questions. 


1.  What   do   you   know   about   Salome, 
the  mother  of  James  and  John? 


2.  What  was  their  father's  name? 
.3.  Name     ojie     earnest    desire    of    this 
mother  for  her  sons. 

4.  What  was  the  Savior's  answer? 

5.  What  should  be  the  difference  be- 
tween those  who  hold  office  in  the  world 
and  those  who  hold  office  in  the  Church? 

6.  Where  was  James  born 

7.  When  did  he  first  hear  about  Jesus? 

8.  Why  was  he  called  "A  son  of  Thun- 
der?" 

9.  What  reasons  have  you  for  thinking 
lie  was  a  faithful  follower  of  Christ? 

10.  Relate  the  circumstances  of  his 
death. 

Fifth  Sunday,  June  30 

Review. 


Primary  Department 


Chas.  B.  Felt,  chairman;  assisted  by  Florenee  S.  Home  and  Bessie  F.  Foster 


Second  Year 

LESSONS   FOR   MAY 

First   Sunday,   May  5 

Lesson  29.     Mary  and  Martha 

Text:  Luke  10:38-42;  John  12:1-18; 
Mark  14:3-9;  Matt.  26:6-13. 

References:  Our  Book  and  Weed's 
"A  Life  of  Christ  for  the  Young,"  chap- 
ters LII  and  LVL 

Aim:  The  Lord  rejoices  in  those  who 
seek  first  His  kingdom. 

Memory  Gem:  "Seek  ye  first  the  king- 
dom of  God  and  His  righteousness  and 
all  these  things  shall  be  added  unto  you." 

Pictures:  "Christ  in  the  Honie  of 
Mary  and  Martha,"  "Mary  Anointing 
Jesus'  Feet"  (Hofmann). 

Second    Sunday,    May    12 

Uniform  "Mothers'  Day"  exercises. 

Lesson  30.     Triumphal  Entry 

Text:     Matt.  21:1-11. 
References:     Our    Bo.ok    and    Weed's 
"A  Life  of  Christ  for  the  Young,"  chap- 
ter LVIL 

Aim:     Those  who  study  the  scriptures 
are   best   prepared    to     recognize      God's 
servants  who  come  among  them. 
Memory    Gem:     "Blessed    is    He    that 
cometh    in    the   name    of   the    Lord,    Ho- 
sanna  in  the  highest." 


Picture:  "Christ's  Entry  into  Jeru- 
salem" (Plockhorst). 

Third  Sunday,  May  19 
Lesson  3L    The  Last  Supper 

Text:     Matt.  26:17-23;  John  13:1-21. 

References:  Our  Book  and  Weed's 
"A  Life  of  Christ  for  the  Young,"  chap- 
ter LX. 

Time:  Four  days  after  the  triumphal 
entry  into  Jerusalem. 

.Aim:  Partaking  of  the  Sacrament 
gives  spiritual  strength. 

Memory  Gem: 
"While  of  these  emblems  we  partake, 
In  Jesus'  name  and  for  His  sake, 
I^et  us  remember  and  be  sure. 
Our    hearts    and     hands    are    clean    and 
pure." 

Picture:  "The  Last  Supper"  (Leonar- 
do Da  Vinci). 

Fourth  Svmday,  May  26 

Lesson  32.    Jesus'  Suffering  in  the  Gar- 
den.    Betrayal  and  Arrest 

Text:  Matt.  26:30-56;  Mark  14:26-52; 
Luke  22:39-54;  John  18:1-12. 

References:  Our  Book  and  Weed's 
"A  Life  of  Christ  for  the  Young,"  chap- 
ter LXII;  Dictionary  of  the  Bible  (Wm. 
Smith). 

Aim:  Implicit  faith  in  God  gives 
strength  and  courage. 


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Memory    Gem:     "Nevertheless    not    as       (Hofmann);   "The   Kiss  of  Judas"    (Gei- 
I  will,  but  as  thou  wilt."  ger) :     "The    Betrayal"    (Don);      "Christ 

Pictures:     "Christ      in      '  Gcthsemane"       Taken  Captive"  ( Hofmann). 


Kindergarten  Department 


Wm.  A.  Morton,  Chairman:  assisted  by  Beulah  WooUey,  Kate  McAllister  and 

Ina  Johnson 


Second  Year 

LESSONS   FOR   MAY 
First   Sunday,   May   5 

Mothers'  Day  story,  "A  Mother's 
Alarm." 

Aim:  The  mother's  great  love  for  her 
children  should  be  acknowledged  and  ap- 
preciated 

Second    Sunday,    May    12 

Special  "Mothers'   Day"  exercises. 

ThfPd   Sunday,  May   19 

Father  Lehi  and  His  Family 

Text:  1  Nephi  2;  3:1-9:  5:1-11;  17:1-5: 
16:8-10,16,26-29:  17:1-6;  18:4-8,23-25. 

Aim:  Appreciation  of  a  father's  love 
and  kindness  brings  the  blessings  of  the 
Lord. 


Fourth  Svmday,  May  26 

Nephi    Obtaining    Food   for   the   Family 

Text:     1  Nephi  16:14-32. 
.Mm-     God    blesses    those    who    strive 
earnestly  to  help  others. 

LESSONS  FOR  JUNE 
First  Sunday,  June  2 

Uniform  Fast  Day  Lesson 
Second  Sunday,  June  9 

The  Birds.  Story:  Adaption  of  Long- 
fellow's "Birds  of  Killingworth." 

Aim:  Aiding  in  the  care  of  birds  will 
as  to  who  took  care  of  baby  while  mother 


help  to  make  our  homes  bright  and   in- 
sure protection  from  insect  pests. 

Third  Sunday,  June  16 


The  Lost  Sheep 

Text:     Matt.  18:11-14;  Luke  15:3-17. 
Aim:     Jesus,  the  Good  Shepherd,  loves 
and  cares  for  His  sheep. 

Fourth  Sunday,  June  23 

Review  Lesson   17,  "The  Lost  Sheep." 
Fifth  Sunday,  June  30 

The  Prodigal  Son 

Text:     Luke  15:11-32 
Aim:     Our  Heavenly  Father  loves  all 
His  children. 


Suggestions  to  Teachers  for  May 
Lessons 

As  you  know,  our  aim  is  to  develop  the 
lessoji  so  that  the  children  can  do  most 
of  the  work.  For  Mother's  Story  let  the 
cliildren  tell  you  what  mother  does  for 
the   baby.     There  are  problems  to  solve 


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was  away;  what  mother  did  to  save  her 
child.  Give  the  children  a  chance  to 
solve  theni.  I,n  the  next  lesson  allow  the 
children  to  tell  what  things  would  be 
needed  for  the  journey;  when  Father  Lehi 
asked  his  sons  to  return  to  their  old 
home  permit  the  children  to  tell  you 
what  they  think  the  sons  did  before  you 
sive  them  the  details.  Study  through 
each  lesson  to  find  such  opportunitie.s 
There  are  many  more. 

You   will   find   the   lessons   much   more 


interesting  if  you  u.sc  your  blackljoards. 
We  submit  a  few  suggestive  drawings. 
We  believe  that  you  will  find  your  work 
more  satisfactory  and  you  will  save  time 
by  drawing  in  mass.  Make  your  drawings 
before  the  children  and  allow  them  to 
assist  you  as  much  as  possible. 

Pictures:  "Lehi  Blesses  His  People," 
"The  Liahona"  (See  frontispiece;,  "hi 
the   Wilderness." 

Blackboard  drawings. 

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kindergarten  department,  the  seco.id  Sunday  in  May.  It  is  from  the  book,  "Kin- 
dergarten and  Primary  Songs,"  by  Mrs.  Frances  K.  Thomassen,  Salt  Lake  City,  and 
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The  Gleam  of  the  Silver  Star 

By  Annie  Malin 


Betty  sat  looking  at  the  Christmas 
tree  which  still  stood  in  the  corner  of 
the  parlor  although  it  was  the  9th  of 
January.  It  had  been  left  there  on 
account  of  Teddy,  the  baby,  who 
seemed  never  lo  tire  of  looking  at  the 
glittering  ornaments,  and  of  ringing 
the  red  and  blue  bells  which  hung 
within  his  reach.  The  firelight  from 
the  grate  shed  a  cheerful  glow  about 
the  room,  causing  the  ornaments  to 
seem  brighter  than  ever  before. 

This  was  especially  true  of  a  beau- 
tiful silver  star  which  hung  upon  wliat 
Teddy  called  the  tip-top  of  the  tree. 

Betty's  face  was  so  thoughtful  that 
Grandma  who  sat  placidly  kuitting  by 
the  light  of  the  fire  wondered  of  what 
she  could  be  thinking. 

Suddenly  a  falling  coal  caused  the 
little  girl  to  come  back  to  earth  with 
a  start. 

"Why  so  thoughtful?"  asked 
Grandma  with  the  smile  grandmas  in 
general  have  for  dearly  loved  grand- 
children. 

Betty  smiled  back  but  it  was  a 
though ful  smile. 

"I  was  thinking,"  she  said,  "that  the 
Christmas  holidays  are  over  and  now 
comes  the  same  old  monotonous  work 
which  lasts  all  the  rest  of  the  vear.  T 
wish  they  lasted  all  the  year  round, 
and  that  we  had  parties  and  company 
all  the  time." 

This  speech  didn't  sound  quite  like 
the    usually    bright    little    Betty    and 


Grandma  looked  surprised,  then  she 
said  softly,  "But  the  star  still  shines, 
Betty." 

Involuntarily  Betty's  brown  eyes 
turned  to  the  star  on  the  "ti])-top" 
branch,  and  then  came  back  to  the 
face  of  her  grandmother.  Then  her 
face  grew  bright  and  eager. 

"Oh,  Grarnhna,"  she  cried,  "I  know 
what  I'll  do,  I'll  get  the  girls  to  form  a 
club,  and  we  will  call  it  the  Silver  Star 
Club,  and  we  will  devote  all  of  our 
spare  time  to  forming  plans  for  our 
amusement,  and  we  will  have  a  good 
time  all  the  year." 

Grandma  smiled  at  the  eager  face 
then  asked  quietly,  "Is  that  all  the 
Christmas  star  means  to  you  my 
flear?  Just  plans  for  the  happiness  of 
five  little  girls?  That  would  indeed  be 
onl_v  a  five-pointed  star  and  I  thought 
the  points  of  a  Christmas  star  should 
number  millions." 

Betty  loked  at  her  grandmother  in 
surprise,  then  he  said  slowly,  "Why, 
( Irandma  !  I  didn't  think  you  would 
speak  of  my  lovely  plan  like  that." 

There  was  silence  for  a  few  mo- 
ments during  which  the  click  of  the 
busy  needles  was  the  only  sound. 

Then  Betty  ran  to  her  grandmo- 
ther's side,  and  threw  her  arms  around 
her  neck. 

"Oh  Grandma,"  she  said,  "you  do 
make  me  ashamed  of  my  selfishness, 
hut  truly  I  didn't  mean  to  be  selfish. 
I  see  your  meaning  now  and  we  will 
form  the  club  and  call  it  the  Silver 
Star  Club,  just  as  I  said,  but  its  object 
shall  be  to  see  how  many  sorrowful 
and  unhappy  people  we  can  make 
smile  and  be  happv  because  of  our  ef- 
forts." 


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Grandma  smiled  and  kissed  the 
smooth  cheek  so  close  to  her  own 
withered  one,  and  as  she  did  so  a  lump 
of  coal  broke  into  several  pieces  in  the 
grate,  making-  the  tinsel  on  the  tree 
glitter  brightly,  and  as  the  little  girl 
and  her  grandmother  glanced'  from  it 
to  the  silver  star,  the  latter  twinkled  at 
them  as  brightly  as  if  it  knew  exactly 
what  they  were  talking  about. 

And  so  this  story  which  isn't  exactly 
meant  for  a  Christmas  story  will  try  to 
show  other  little  children  how  the  rays 
of  the  Christmas  star  can  be  made  to 
shine  in  the  hearts  of  a  great  many 
people  the  whole  year  round. 

After  a  great  deal  of  talking  and 
planning  by  the  pair  by  the  fire,  four 
little  notes  were  written  and  addressed 
to  four  little  girls  who  were  Betty's 
most  particular  friends,  and  as  I  saw 
one  of  them  over  Betty's  shoulder 
( wh'ch  I  know  isn't  exactly  good  man- 
ners), I  can  tell  you  first  what  Betty 
wrote. 
Dear  Mamie: 

"Meet  me  at  my  home  at  3  p.  m.  on 
Sat.  Jan.  12th,  \^\7  to  discuss  impor- 
tant business."  Then  followed  Betty's 
name. 

"Shall  I  send  them  by  mail?"  asked 
Bettv  when  they  were  all  ready. 

"No  dear,"  answered  Grandma,  "we 
must  economize  you  know,  in  all  ways 
possible." 

So  the  next  morning  five  little  girls 
were  smiling  when  four  of  them 
found  a  tinv  envelope  on  each  of  their 
desks  at  school. 

At  recess  the  five  joined  each  other 

on  the  plavground.     "Whatever  is  it 

all  about?"  four  asked  in  chorus,  but 

Bettv  placed  a  finger  on  her  lips  and 

g-'tjgled  delightedly.    "T  shan't  tell  you 

a  word  about  it  until  Saturdav."  she 

said,  and  no  pleadings  could  move  her. 

You  may  be  sure  none  of  the  four 

were  late  at  the  meeting,  and  at  the 

a.npointed  time  they  were  all  gathered 

about  the  rrate  in  Grandma  Barlow's 

room,  and  the  dear  old  lady  seemed  as 

voung  as  anv  nf  them   for  she  loved 


to  lielp  young  people  in  planning  for 
the  happiness  of  the  unhappy  and  nn- 
forunate. 

Betty's  explanation  of  her  jslan  was 
listened  to  with  delighted  exclama- 
tions, and  when  Betty  said,  "We  must 
choose  a  president,"  Mamie  Harding 
promptly  suggested  the  name  of  Betty 
Barlow. 

Bettv  glanced  around  the  circle  of 
eager  faces  and  shook  her  head,  say- 
ing modestly,  "I  wouldn't  be  equal  to 
the  position  and  as  we  need  a  win- 
person  to  council  with  in  our  work,  I 
move  that  we  elect  Elizabeth  Barlow 
as  president  of  the  Silver  Star  Club." 
So  that  was  soon  settled  as  well  as 
other  arrangements  into  which  we 
need  not  go  in  detail,  and  the  Silver 
Star  Club"  was  ushered  into  e.xistence 
with  six  points  instead  of  five,  as  was 
originallv  intended,  the  sixth  one,  or 
should  I  say  the  first  one,  being 
Grandma  Barlow  herself. 

Soon  other  plans  were  put  before 
the  members.  Each  girl  should  have  a 
card  bearing  her  name,  upon  which  a 
silver  star  was  to  be  pasted  for  each 
new  member  gained,  these  members  to 
be  termed  ravs.  This  was  to  distin- 
guish them  from  the  original  mem- 
bers, and  though  the  President  could 
not  clearly  see  the  necessity  of  that, 
she  let  it  pass  without  comment. 

Each  eirl  was  pledged  to  seek  out 
persons  either  shut  in  on  account  of 
.nhvsical  affliction  or  known  to  be  in 
trouble  of  some  kind. 

"It  will  be  no  small  task  to  approach 
these  people  in  the  right  way,"  said 
Presirlent  Barlow,  "and  we  must  have 
considerable  tact,  or  else  we  will  do 
more  harm  than  "food."  and  each  little 
srirl  felt  that  she  had  undertaken  an 
important  mission. 

Each  one  was  asked  to  give  the 
name  of  one  elisfible  member,  and  then 
Grandma  who  had  not  lived  in  the 
neighborhood  verv  long,  asked  ques- 
tions concerninc  them  to  enable  her  to 
indge  \\'hicli  little  c^irl  coidd  l)est  han- 
fllc  the  rase  under  consideration.     To 


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April  li/lS 


Mamie  llanliiii;-  was  j^ivcii  tlie  name 
of  Mrs.  Taylor  who  was  old  and  poor 
and  crippled  with  rheumatism.  To 
Sadie  Carter,  that  of  little  lame  John- 
ny TToward.  Beckie  Lindsay  was  ap- 
pointed to  visit  a  little  tjirl  whom  none 
of  them  knew,  beins^  a  new-comer,  but 
who  sat  at  her  window  all  the  time  do- 
ing nothing  but  watch  the  children  at 
play.  To  Susie  Decker  fell  the  task  of 
bringing;  joy  to  the  heart  of  Mrs. 
O'Brien  who  had  buried  her  only  girl 
a  short  time  before  and  shunned  visits 
of  sympathetic  neighbors.  Betty  was 
to  see  what  she  could  do  towards  help- 
ing an  old  man  named  Rose  who  was 
known  to  be  very  cross  and  disagree- 
able to  the  children  of  the  neighbor- 
hood. This  old  man  had  been  a  gar- 
dener, but  now  was  only  able  to  hob- 
ble about  among  his  flowers  during 
the  summer,  and  who  spent  the  win- 
ters waiting  for  spring,  while  he  drove 
the  boys  from  his  yard,  and  cared  for 
a  large  window  full  of  flowering 
plants. 

"Go  to  work  with  a  prayer  that  you 
may  keep  your  wits  about  you,"  said 
Grandma,  "and  may  God  bless  you." 

As  soon  as  a  girl  could  get  any  one 
of  these  people  to  sign  his  or  her  name 
she  was  to  report  at  the  next  meeting 
and  no  one  must  give  up  under  a 
month  of  patient  effort. 

.A.fter  the  other  girls  had  gone  home, 
Betty  turned  a  sober  face  to  her 
grandmother. 

"It's  a  big  undertaking,  isn't  it?" 
asked  the  old  lady,  "but  if  we  only  win 
one  name  in  a  vear  it  will  repay  us, 
won't  it?" 

Betty  assented  very  quietlv.  What 
she  had  intended  to  say  had  been  that 
Grandma  had  given  her  the  hardest 
task  of  all,  to  gain  the  good-will  of 
disagreeable  Old  Man  Rose,  as  he 
was  known  among  the  neighborhood. 
But  Betty  was  after  all  a  brave  little 
girl,  and  was  soon  feeling  glad  she 
had  not  questioned  tU?  President's  ap- 
pointment. 


Mamie  1  larding  left  her  companions 
at  the  corner  and  went  on  her  way 
home  with  a  light  heart.  She  was  a 
cheerful  little  person  and  not  inclined 
t(i  make  triouble  out  of  any  cluty.  It 
hapiJencd  that  she  had  to  pass  poor 
little  tumble  down  house  where  poor 
old  Mrs.  Taylor  lived.  Why  not  begin 
now?  she  thought,  and  after  a  moment 
of  hesitation  she  stepped  over  the  old 
gate  which  was  off  its  hinges,  and 
went  up  to  the  door.  After  knocking 
timidly  she  listened  for  an  invitation  to 
enter. 

Not  hearing  it  she  knocked  again, 
louder  than  before,  then  she  heard  a 
feeble  voice  inquire  who  was  there. 
"Mamie  Harding,"  she  called  out  af- 
ter a  moment.  "What  do  you  want?" 
came  the  voice,  more  sharply  this  time. 
"I  want  to  come  in,"  said  Mamie,  but 
if  the  truth  had  been  told,  she  was  not 
very  anxious  by  this  time  to  enter. 
"Well,  great  days!"  exclaimedthe  old 
lady,  "why  don't  you  turn  the  knob 
without  talking  so  much  about  it." 

With  a  sinking  heart  poor  Mamie 
did  as  she  was  told,  and  found  herself 
in  an  untidy  room,  while  from  the  bed, 
in  the  corner,  a  pair  of  bright  eyes 
looking  out  from  a  wrinkled  face 
peered  at  her  suspiciouslv. 

"Come  here !"  commanded  Mrs. 
Taylor,  and  as  Mamie  approached  the 
bed  she  wished  she  had  not  been  in 
such  a  hurry  in  beginning  her  club 
work. 

"Now,"  continued  the  invalid,  "who 
sent  you,  and  what  do  you  want?"  As 
Mamie  still  continued  dumb,  she  asked 
again,  "Who  sent  you  ?  Are  you 
deaf?" 

Suddenly  Mamie  remembered  her 
errand  and  managed  to  answer,  "The 
Silver  Star  Club." 

With  a  look  of  astonishment  Mrs. 
Taylor  struggled  to  rise,  but  being  un- 
able to  do  so  leaned. upon  her  skinny 
elbow  and  stared  at  the  shrinking  girl. 

"What  do  you  mean,"  she  snapped, 
*'attd  what  do  vou  want?" 


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215 


"I  want  you  to  be  a  ray,"  said  poor 
Mamie,  almost  ready  to  cry. 

"Get  out!"  commanded  the  mystified 
old  lady,  and  raising  her  voice  she 
cried  shrilly.  "Fire!  Thieves!  Police!" 

MaiTiie  was  horrified.  What  should 
she  do  to  quiet  this  awful  old  woman? 
Then  fortunately  she  remembered  the 
President's  injunction,  "Go  to  work 
with  a  prayer  that  you  may  keep  your 
wits  about  you,"  and  with  a  prayer  for 
help,  she  said  gently,  "Dear  Mrs. 
Taylor,  I  only  came  to  see  if  I  could 
help  you  in  any  way,  and  if  you  will 
let  me  make  up  your  fire  or  anvthing 
else  you  want  done.  Til  explain.  I 
am  Dr.  Harding's  daughter." 

Mrs.  Taylor  sank  back  on  the  bed 
with  a  groan,  and  Mamie,  laying  aside 
her  coat,  soon  had  a  bright  fire  burn- 
ing in  the  old  stove,  while  its  owner 
watched  her  curiously.  "I'll  pretend 
she's  my  grandmother."  thought  Ma- 
mie, "and  trv  to  make  her  comfort- 
able." 

As  soon  as  she  could  she  tidied  up 
the  room  and  washed  a  few  dishes 
which  stood  on  the  table :  then  she 
proceeded  to  toa.st  a  slice  of  bread, 
and  soon  had  the  satisfaction  of 
seeing  the  poor  old  lady  eating  her 
supper. 

"You  see."  explained  Mrs.  Taylor. 
"T  can  generally  get  out  of  bed  and 
help  mvself.  but  this  morning  this 
.pesky  rheuniatism  caught  me  in  mv 
knee  and  here  I've  been  all  dav.  and 
not  a  bite  to  eat  or  a  spark  of  fire. 
Now."  she  continued,  "tell  me  who  in 
creat'on  sent  you  here  in  the  nick  of 
time,  to  help  me?" 

Mamie  reverently  bowed  her  head 
as  she  said  in  a  low  tone,  "I  really  be- 
lieve, Mrs.  Tavlor,  that  the  Lord'  sent 
me." 

Then  she  told  the  old  lady  about  the 
mission  of  the  club,  and  as  it  was 
nearly  dark,  she  bade  Mrs.  Taylor 
good-night  and  soon  was  on  her  way 
home  with  flying  feet :  for  she  had 
made  a  discovery  which  she  could 
scarcely  keep   to  herself.     When   she 


reached  the  dining-room  at  last,  she 
sank  into  a  chair  gasping  for  breath. 

"What's  this?"  exclaimed  Dr.  Hard- 
ing who  sat  reading  the  evening  paper. 

"Oh,  where's  Nancy?"  asked  Mamie 
without  answering  her  father's  ques- 
tions, "I  must  tell  Nancy  first." 

Nancy  was  the  cook,  who  hearing 
the  excited  mention  of  her  name, 
came  into  the  room. 

"I've  found  her.  Nancy,"  she  cried, 
almost  in  hysterics :  "I've  found  your 
mother." 

With  the  stern  look,  he  put  on  with 
a  refractory  patient.  Dr.  Harding  bade 
Mamie  to  tell  her  story  quietly. 

With  an  effort  Mamie  calmed  her- 
self and  told  of  her  adventure. 

"And  right  on  the  mantel  piece," 
she  said  to  the  white- faced  Nancy, 
"was  a  picture  of  you  when  you  were 
young,  just  like  the  one  you  showed 
me.  you  know,  when  you  were  dusting 
your  room  yesterday.  And  the  poor 
old  lady  told  me  she  once  had  a  little 
girl  like  me  who  left  her  to  run  away 
with  a  bad  man." 

Nancy's  white  face  was  red  by  this 
time.  "I  didn't  stay  with  him  long," 
she  said,  "but  I  wouldn't  go  back  to 
my  mother.  Dr.  Harding,  and  then  she 
moved  away  from  the  old  town  and 
I  never  could  find  her.  And  to  think 
she  is  alive  and  living  so  near.  Oh. 
Miss  Mamie,  how  can  I  ever  thank 
you  ?" 

"P)y  being  kind  to  her  now  she  is 
found,  if  Mamie  is  right  about  it," 
sail]  Mrs.  Harding,  kindly. 

As  Mamie's  expression  .proved  to  be 
a  reality  there  was  much  excitement 
in  her  home  and  you  may  be  sure  the 
girls  all  congratulated  Mamie  as  being 
the  first  one  to  add  a  ray  to  the  Silver 
Star  Club,  for  when  Mamie  met  with 
the  club  the  ne.xt  Saturday.  Presi.dent 
Parlow  promptly  pasted  a  silver  star 
on  Mamie's  card  on  which  was  written 
in  a  trembling  handwriting  the  name 
(if  Sarah  ;\nn  Taylor. 

(to  be  continued) 


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April  liiiS 


'ml "-  ^■"  f 


A  Wise  Dog 

When  Poor  l^ixie  was  lost  from  his  master, 
He  thought,  "When  the  man  loses  me, 

He  just  whistles — so  I'll  try  to  whistle! 
Perhaps  he'll  come  running,  you  see." 

L.  J.  B. 


Glad  Tidings 

By  Minnie   Iveyson-Hoddapp 
XIX — "in    my    father's    house    are 

MANY   MANSIONS." 

"Eye  hath  not  seen,  ear  hath  not  heard, 
Neither   hath    it    entered    into   the   heart 

of  man 
The   things   which   God   hath   prepared 
For  them  that  love  Him." 

In  the  school  room  we  find  our 
playmates  in  certain  grades  according 
to  the  work  they  can  best  do. 

Among  our  friends  we  notice  those 
who  are  bright  and  some  who  are 
brighter. 

Nature  teaches  degree. 

The  stars  are  brilliant  as  they  shine 
Through  all  the  midnight  sky. 

The  moon  is  brilliant  when  a  fire 
Tllumes  its  face  on  high! 

Bui   yon   gold   sun,   that   mal<es   our   day 
]\1\   gazing  doth  defy. 


In  a  .wonderful  vision,  Joseph 
Smitli,  the  Prophet,  and  Oliver  Cow- 
dery  were  shown  three  divisions  of 
glory  unto  which  spirits  attain.  The 
first  is  the  Celestial  Glory,  likened 
unto  the  glory  of  the  sun.  The  next 
is  the  terrestrial  glory,  likened  unto 
the  glory  of  the  moon.  The  third  is 
the  telestial  glory  likened  unto  the 
glory  of  the  stars. 

The  gospel  plan  belongs  with,  and 
leads  unto  the  highest  or  Celestial 
glory.  Everyone  who  accepts  baptism 
becomes  a  candidate  for  the  Celestial 
glory.  Those  who  enter  this  state 
and  live  true,  receive,  at  length,  a  ful- 
ness of  the  priesthood  and  become 
"heirs  and  joint  heirs  with  Jesus 
Christ."  This  is  a  big  thought  and 
each  boy  and  girl  will  do  well  to  lay 
it  to  heart. 


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217 


In  the  terrestrial  glory  shall  dwell 
the  less  valiant  souls  who  received  a 
testimony  of  Jesus,  but  received  not 
of  his  fulness. 

Those  not  entering  the  two  higher 
divisions,  assign  themselves  to  the  te- 
lestial  glory. 

Those  entering  none  of  the  glories 
are  characters  who  have  shed  inno- 
cent blood  after  having  received  a 
testimony  of  the  Holy  Ghost.  This  is 
an  unpardonable  sin,  and  those  who 
commit  it  receive  endless  punishment. 

Let  us  read  the  words  of  divine 
revelation  and  rejoice : 

"Verily  thus  saith  the  Lord,  it  shall 
come  to  pass  that  every  soul  who  for- 
saketh  their  sins  and  cometh  unto  me 
and  calleth  on  my  name,  and  obeyeth 
my  voice,  and  keepeth  my  command- 
ments, shall  see  my  face  and  know 
that  I  am." 

Crocheting 

By  Mrs.   S.   A.   Rintoul 
(Photo  by  Cooley  Studio) 

CENTER    PIECE 

Ch  6,  join  in  ring.  1st  round:  ch  3, 
24  t  in  ring;  join  with  si.  2nd  r:  ch 
6,  miss  1  t,  t  in  next  t,  ch  3,  miss  1, 
t  in  next.  Repeat  around,  ch  3,  join 
to  3rd  St  of  6  ch.  3rd  r :  ch  3,  5  t  to 
each  space.  4th  r:  ch  6,  miss  1,  t  in 
next,  ch  3.  miss  1,  t  in  next.  5th  r: 
t  in  each  space  with  3  ch  between.  6tii 
r :  5  t  to  each  space.  7th  r :  same  as 
4th.  8th,  9th  10th,  and  11th:  t  in  each 
space  with  3  ch  between.  12th  r  :  ch  6. 
t  in  first  4  spaces,  ch  3,  5  t  in  next  2 
spaces ;  repeat  around ;  join  to  3rd  st 
of  6  ch  with  si.  13th  r:  ch  3,  4  t  in 
1st  space,  1  t  in  each  of  next  3  spaces 
with  3  ch  between,  ch  3,  5  t  in  next 
space,  ch  6,  a  double  triple  treble  in 
center  of  10  t,  ch  6,  5  t  in  1st  space ; 
repeat  around.  14th  r:  si  to  left  coi 
ner  of  group,  ch  3,  4  t  in  space,  ch  3, 
t  in  next  space,  ch  3,  t  in  next,  ch  3 
5  t  in  next  space,  ch  6,  1  d  to  right  of 
d  1 1,  ch  3  d  to  left  of  d  t  t,  ch"6,  5  t 
in  next  space.     ISth  r:  si  to  left  cor 


of  group,  ch  3,  4  t  in  space,  ch  3,  t  in 
next  space,  ch  3.  5  t  in  next,  ch  6,  d 
to  right  of  d,  ch  3,  d  in  space,  ch  3, 
d  to  left  of  d,  ch  6,  5  t  in  next  space. 
16th  r :  ch  3,  5  t  in  5  t,  ch  3,  t  in  space, 
ch  3,  t  in  space,  ch  3,  5  t  in  5  t,  ch  6, 
■d  to  right  of  d,  ch  3,  d  in  space,  ch  3, 
d  in  space,  ch  3,  d  to  left  of  d,  ch  6 
join  with  si.  17th  r :  ch  6,  t  in  each  3 
spaces  with  3  ch  between,  ch  3,  t  in 
last  t  of  5  t,  and  4  t  in  space,  ch  6,  d 
in  each  3  ch  spaces  with  3  ch  between. 
Ch  6,  4  t  on  6  ch,  and  1  t  in  1st  t; 
repeat  around,  join  to  3rd  st  of  6  ch. 
18th  r :  si  to  center  of  space,  ch  6,  t 
in  each  space,  v\'ith  3  ch  between ;  5  t 
as  before ;  ch  6,  d  in  space,  ch  3,  d  in 
space,  ch  3,  d  in  space,  ch  6,  5  t.     19th 


CENTER   PIECE 

r :  t  in  each  .space  with  3  ch  between, 
5  t  as  before,  ch  3,  d  1 1  in  3  ch  between 
■d  s,  5  t  to  left.  20th  r:  5  t  to  each 
space,  3  ch  above  5  t.  21st  r:  t  in 
every  3rd  st  with  3  ch  between.  22nd 
r :  5  t  in  each  4  spaces  above  the  round 
figures,  1  d  to  each  of  other  spaces 
with  3  ch  between.  2'3rd  r :  3  t  at  each 
end  of  group  of  20  t ;  3  t  between 
these,  divided  by  3  sts,  1  d  to  each  of 
other  spaces,  divided  by  3  ch ;  repeat 
round.  27th  r :  5  t  to  each  space  be- 
tween t,  and  2  d  in  each  space  be- 
tween d.  28th  r:  d  in  every  3rd  st 
with  ,S  ch  l)etween.  29th  r :  d  in  each 
,T  cli  loop,  with  3  ch  and  picot  between. 


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April  ifiiS 


Big  House  and  Little  House  Stories 

By  li'y  irUliaiHs  Stone 
III 

THE  PKRFICCT  LADY  SAVES  LITTLE  HOUSE 

One  evening,  as  the  sun  was  begin- 
ning to  drop  down  into  the  Land  of 
Nod,  Five  Children  chmbed  upon  the 
fence  to  watch  for  the  Master  of  Lit- 
tle House.  The  large  gray  automo- 
bile came  quietly  along,  and  the  Mas- 
ter of  Big  House  got  out,  but  still 
Five  Children  watched  and  waited. 
The  Sun  blew  out  his  candle  and  went 
to  bed  and  the  Sandman  started  on 
his  long  errands  in  the  land  of  Wide- 
Awake  ;  and  the  Perfect  Lady  came 
out  and  watched  too.  At  last  the 
Oldest  of  All  spied  him,  but  he  did 
not  whistle  at  the  corner  and  he  even 
forgot  to  kiss  Five  Children  before 
they  went  into  the  house  for  supper. 
He  almost  forgot  to  eat  his  supper, 
too,  and  he  did  not  laugh  and  play 
with  Five  Children  a  bit. 

So  when  the  Sandman  had  emptied 
sand  into  each  .pair  of  blue  eyes,  the 
Perfect  Lady  said : 

"Now,  dear  Master  of  Little  House, 
tell  me  what  it  is  that  troubles  you." 
So  the  Master  of  Little  House  told 
her  be  was  going  to  lose  his  job  be- 
cause the  man  who  owned  the  mills 
wanted  that  particular  job  for  a  rela- 
tive of  his  who  was  coming  from  an- 
other place. 

"Maybe  I  will  have  to  sell  Little 
House,  if  I  can't  find  another  job  be- 
fore winter  comes,"'  said  Master  of 
Little  House. 

"Oh,"  cried  the  Perfect  Lady,  "we 
can  never  spare  Little  House!  I  will 
go  and  see  Mister  Fiske  myself." 

"But  Mr.  Fiske  does  not  own  the 
mills,"  answered  Master  of  Little 
House.  "He  is  very  kind  and  did 
everything  to  keep  my  place  for  me. 
But  the  owner  is  a  very  cross  man 
who  never  changes  his  mind.  They 
say  he  lives  all  alone  out  in  the  sub- 
urbs somewhere,  but  I  do  not  even 
know  his  name." 


The  next  morning  the  Perfect  Lady 
hurried  k'our  or  Five  Children  off  to 
school  and  with  the  Youngest  of  All 
laughing  and  smiling  all  the  time,  she 
went  down  to  see  Mr.  Fiske  at  his 
office.  But  although  he  was  very, 
very  sorry,  he  said  he  could  do  noth- 
ing more ;  that  Mr.  Carlson,  who 
owned  the  mills,  never  changed  an 
order,  so  the  Master  of  Little  House 
would  have  to  hunt  another  job. 

But  the  Perfect  Lady  was  not  satis- 
fied. She  got  Mr.  Carlson's  address 
and  set  off  to  see  him,  too.  This  ad- 
dress took  her  up  and  up  in  a  great 
office  building  in  the  center  of  the  big 
city.  She  sat  down  to  wait  in  a  nice 
large  room,  and  soon  a  man  came  and 
told  her  she  could  see  Mr.  Carlson. 
So  the  Perfect  Lady  took  the  Young- 
est of  All  on  her  arm  and  went  into 
the  other  room.  This  was  very  beau- 
tiful: there  were  wonderful  pictures 
on  the  walls  and  pretty  flowers  in 
vases  and  lots  of  nice  chairs.  At  a  big 
desk  in  the  center  of  the  room  sat  a 
man  who  looked  sad  and  lonesome. 
When  he  turned  around  and  she  saw 
his  face  the  Perfect  Lady  cried,  "Oh, 
did  I  come  all  this  way  to  see  you?" 

The  gentleman  stood  up  and  smiled 
and  it  was  the  Master  of  Big  House! 
"I  don't  think  you  are  the  person  I 
came  to  see,"  said  the  Perfect  Lady, 
"I  am  looking  for  a  cross  man." 

The  Master  of  Big  House  smiled 
and  had  her  sit  down.  He  tried  to 
take  the  Youngest  of  All  but  she  hid 
her  face  on  the  Perfect  Lady's  shoul- 
der and  would  not  even  look  at  him. 
Then  the  Perfect  Lady  told  him  all 
about  their  troubles — how  the  Master 
of  Little  House  would  have  to  sell 
Little  House  if  he  lost  his  job. 

"If  I  let  him  keep  his  job  will  you 
sell  Little  House  to  me?"  asked  the 
Master  of  Big  House. 

"Sell  Little" House?"  cried  the  Per- 
fect Lady.  "We  can  never  be  happy 
without  that  dear  little  home.  Why 
do  you  want  it  when  you  have  so 
much  and  we  are  so  happy  in  it?" 


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219 


"That  is  just  the  reason,"  said  the 
Piaster  of  Big  House,  and  he  reall.v 
looked  cross  now.  "You  are  so  happy 
all  the  time  and  I  am  always  sad.  Your 
house  is  always  ringing-  with  laughter 
and  mine  is  so  still  and  quiet.  I  have 
no  one  to  love  me  and  no  babies  at 
all,  and  I  am  so  unhappy  that  I  cannot 
endure -your  happiness.  So  I  want  to 
tear  down  your  Little  House  and  then 
I  will  not  have  to  listen  to  you." 

Just  then  Kindness  flew  in  through 
the  open  window  and  sat  upon  his 
shoulder.  "Listen,''  she  ,said.  "Mak- 
ing Five  Children  an.d  the  Perfect 
Lady  so  sad  will  not  make  you  happy ! 
Be  good  to  them,  and  my  sister. 
Princess  Happiness,  will  come  to  you, 
too!"  And  the  Master  of  Big  House 
smiled  a  little  and  the  hard  lines  ran 
away  from  his  forehead  as  he  said  ; 

"Well,  making  all  of  those  Five 
Children  sad  over  the  loss  of  their 
Little  House  will  not  bring  me  happi- 
ness."    So  he  rang  a  button  and  said 


to  the  office  boy :  "Tell  Mr.  Fiske  to 
keep  Mr.  Gray  on  at  his  work  until 
further  orders !" 

Then  Princess  Happiness  came  and 
sat  right  upon  his  shoulder  and  smiled 
through  his  eyes  and  around  the  cor- 
ners of  his  mouth.  And  the  Youngest 
of  All  held  out  her  hands  and  climbed 
right  upon  his  lap ! 

Two  big  tears  ran  down  the  Per- 
fect Lady's  cheek  and  she  said,  "Oh, 
Mr.  Carlson,  if  you  could  only  know 
how  happy  Little  House  and  all  its 
people  will  be  tonight!" 

Then  she  took  the  Youngest  of  All 
and  hurried  back  to  Little  House. 
When  the  Sun  was  undressing,  Five 
Children  heard  a  whistle  and  they 
rushed  to  the  front  gate  and  saw  Mas- 
ter of  Little  House  hurrying  home. 
He  kissed  Five  Children  and  the  Per- 
fect Lady  and  said,  "Dear  Little 
House,  we  will  not  have  to  sell  you 
after  all,  for  the  Perfect  Lady  saved 
m\-  job  and  saved  vou,  too!" 


The  Children's  Budget  Box 


By  Lawrence  Tanner  Thomas. 


Age  13. 


Swan  Lake,  Idaho. 


A  True  Sto 


T 


After  joining  the  Church  in  Eng- 
land my  grandparents  desired  to  im- 


migrate to  Zion.  Grandpa  was  a 
sailor,  and  following  the  advice  of  the 
president  of  the  branch  where  he  lived 
took  a  voyage  to  raise  money. 

He  went  to  China,  and  the  chief  en- 
gineer under  whom  he  had  worked 
before,  promised  to  keep  him  on  the 
steamboat  which  was  to  run  from 
Hong  Kong. 

As  soon  as  he  reached  his  destina- 
tion, the  man  discharged  him. and  kept 
another  man  on.  Grandpa  asked  if  he 
had  not  pleased  him,  and  he  said, 
"Yes,  George,  always,  but  you  are  a 
married  man.  I  think  you  had  better 
go  back  to  England. 

Grandpa  felt  bad  because  he  didn't 
have  enough  money  to  immigrate,  so 
he  tried  to  get  on  other  steamboats 
but  failed,  and  got  sick  and  had  to 
go  to  the  hospital.  Everything  was 
against  him.  He  prayed  to  know  what 
to  do,  and  the  impression  vvas  "Go 
home."     So  he  started    for   England, 


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anil  at  tlic  first  post,  he  heard  of  the 
massacre  of  the  European  sailors — 
the  Chinese  war  had  begun  with  Eng- 
land. Had  he  stayed  there  very  likely 
he  would  have  been  slain,  but  the 
Lord  preserved  him. 

Mary  J.  Miles, 
Age  14.  St.  George,  Utah. 


have  two.  Some  girls  would  have 
stolen  it.  But  why  are  you  so  late?" 
Then  Mary  told  her  all  that  had  hap- 
pened. Her  mother  said,  "Well,  my 
dear,  it  always  pays  to  be  honest." 

Ruth  Pate, 
Age  II.  Sage,  Wyo.,  Box  11. 


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Mary's  mother  had  just  bought  a 
box  of  apples.  They  were  kept  down 
in  the  cellar,  not  far  from  the  house. 
Mary  nearly  always  got  home  at  four- 
thirty  o'clock.  If  she  did  not,  her 
mother  would  ask  why.  One  day  as 
she  was  coming  home  from  school  she 
was  tempted  to  steal  an  apple.  So  she 
went  down  the  cellar  and  got  one. 
But  just  as  she  went  to  take  a  bite, 
something  whispered,  'Don't  start  to 
steal  now,  or  you  always  will."  She 
thought  a  moment :  Mother  would 
sure  ask  why  she  was  late,  and  if  she 
didn't  see,  her  heavenly  Father  would. 
So  she  went  into  the  house,  and  asked 
"Mamma,  may  I  have  an  apple?" 

"Yes,    dear,"    said    she,    "you    may 


Answer  to  February  Puzzle 

1 — Carbon.     2 — Summit.     3 — Wayne. 
4 — Davis.      5 — Beaver.      6^Pinte. 

Over    two    hundred    correct     answers 

to    the    February    puzzle,    "Counties    in 

Utah,"    were    received     by     the      Puzzle 

Editor.      It  only   remained   to   select   the 

namies    of    the    first    ten    who    furnished 

the   best   articles.     There  were   so  many 

good    compositions    that    we    are    going 

to    give    twice    what    we    promised,    and 

prizes  ai  books   have   been   awarded   the 

following: 

Athene  Allred,  Spring  City,  Utah. 

Gorden   Anderson,   Glenwood,   Utah. 

Ruth   Bennion,   Vernon,   Utah. 

Garden  Christensen,  P.  O.  Box  45,  Shel- 
ley,  Idaho. 

Vilate  Christensen,  P.  O.  Box  303,  Rich- 
field, Utah. 

Ethel  Dean,  1703  So.  23rd  East,  Salt 
Lake   City,   Utah. 

Harold  Perry  Driggs,  20  So.  12th  East, 
Salt   Lake    City,   Utah. 

Leila  Gailey.  Box  31,  Kaysville,  R.  F. 
D.  No.  1,  Utah. 

Rosa  Johnson,  Box  69,  Pleasant  Grove, 
R,   F.   D.   No.   1.   Utah. 

Wallace  Jones,  Roy,  Utah. 

]\Iinnie  Jones,  2731  Wall  Ave.,  Ogden, 
Utah. 

Clarissa  Jones,  Price,  Utah. 

Reed  W.  Keller,  Box  85,  Sugar  House 
Station,  Salt  Lake  City,  Utah. 

Don  Lyman.  Mayfield,  Utah. 

Lucy  Alice  Neves,  Burlington,  Big  Horn 
Co.,  Wyoming. 

Sarah    Orme,    Tooele,   Utah. 

Anna   Peterson,    Hooper,    Utah. 

Leah    Porter,    Hatch,   Utah. 

Maurine  Porter,  Meadow,  Utah. 

Clvde  Pulsipher,  Box  82,  Route  2,  Provo, 
Utah. 

Alta  Schlappy,  Delta,  Utah. 

Muriel    Smith,    Fielding,    Utah. 

Delbert  Thayne,  Moulton,  Cassia  Coun- 
ty,  Idaho. 

Edna  Turner,   Bluff  Dale,  Utah. 

Stanley  E.  Vissins:.  519  Emerson  .^ve.. 
Salt  'Lake   City,   Utah. 

Marcia  Vowles,   Tooele   City,  LUah. 

Venice  Williams,  Dubois,  Idaho. 


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tie  fun,  exo 


Some  days,  out  on 
e  ocean,  the  ^^^^ 
did  not  shine  much, 
and  .^^^  and      ^J    had  but  lit- 
ept  when  the^M^    brought 

^ ,  or  whentne' sea-gulls  carhfelabbut 


to  pick  up  food.  The  little 
always  ran  to  the  side  of  the  _^^^^_  also,^  to 
look  at  the  great  white  hungry  ^g^^^:;-^,  and 
she  whinnied  and  acted  as  glad  to  see  them  as  if 
they  were  Shetland  ">:=C^  and  she  had  always 
known  them  !  One  day,  when  the  ^T  was 
leading 


W  ,  he   let  Molly 


by  the 
take  hold  of  the  halter-  ^^^  and  skip 
up  and  down  the  deck  with  her.  That 
was  fun  for  ""^^^    and  the 


,  but 
ad  to  run  behind  all  the 


poor 


way  by  himself;  for  She!*?,  would  stop  and  not  stir 
her  1^^  if  Toiriiny  touched  her,  and  then  Tommy 


would  feel  so  bad  that  the   *^  4>  ^   would  come  into 


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his  ^  ^  .  *'  It  is  very  mean  of  her,"  he  said, 
"to  treat  me  so  because  that  ^  on  the  ^^^^^^ 
was  bad  to  her!"  "So  it  is,"  said  the  captain. 
"You  just  come  over  here  by  me,  and 
hold  my  ^^^"^  •>  and  help  me  keep 
watch  for  a  .JaL  to  carry  your 
sister  s 


to  your 


m  /      1  om- 


my  was  very  proud  to  hold  the  ^K  'siong  ^^^*^^ 
up  to  his  j^^  and  look  through  it.  Pretty  soon 
did   pass,    and     '^^S     called  cut   to 


it  as  loud  as  he  could,  "  Hello,  ship !  stop,  chip! 
We  want  to  send  a  |  j^  by  you  !"^^  But  the 
did    not   stop.         So  the 


little 


gave 
to  wave  if  another    h^W^ 
came  in  a 


came  in  sight. 

little  while.        This  was  a  tall 

Si  ^^  '  ^^*^  did  not  look  near- 
sighted, but  it  passed  like  the 
other  one,  and  took  no  notice  of 
Tommy's  ^^v^^^  ;  and  Tommy 
cried,  and  said  his  cj^^^^  would  never,  never  get 
Molly's   '^^^^  about     Buying     2 


Soup  Just  Gone 

"Is  there  any  soup  on  the  bill  of  fare?" 
"No,  sir — there  was,  but  I  wiped  it  off." 

Limited  Space 

"Are  the  ro,oms  in  your  flat  small?" 
"Small!     Why,  my  dog  has  to  wag  his 
tail  up  and  down  in  'em!" 

For  Revenue  Only 

John:  "You  used  to  say  there  was 
something  about  me  you  liked. 

"Yes,  I  did,  but  you've  spent  it  all." 

No  Need  for  Speech 

"Does  the  baby  talk  yet?''  asked  a 
friend  of  the  family. 

"No,"  replied  the  baby's  disgusted  little 
brother,  "the  baby  doesn't  need  to  talk." 

"Doesn't  need  to  talk?" 

"No.  All  the  baby  has  to  do  is  to 
yell,  and  it  gets  everything  in  the  house 
that's  worth  having." 

In  Chicago 

The  Jinkses  were  just  getting  launched 
in  society.  It  was  their  first  dinner  party. 

Mrs.  Jinks:  "Lena,  be  sure  to  mash 
the  peas  well  tonight." 

Lena:  "What  ma'am  ^  ]\Iash  the 
peas?" 

Mrs.  Jinks:  "Yes,  Lena,  that's  what 
I  said.  It  makes  Mr.  Jinks  very  nervous 
at  dinner  to  have  them  roll  off  his  knife." 

The  Point  of  View 

A  little  boy  had  eaten  too  much  under- 
done pie  for  his  supper  and  was  soon 
roaring  lustily.  His  mother's  visitor  was 
much  disturbed. 

"If  he  was  my  child,"  said  she,  "he'd 
get  a  good  sound  spanking." 

"He  deserves  it,"  the  mother  admitted, 
"but  I  don't  believe  in  spanking  him  on 
a  full  stomach." 

"Neither  do  I,"  said  the  visitor.  "I'd 
turn  him  over." 


American  Efficiency 

"I   see  the  American  troops  in   France 
are   going  to   use   ready-made  trenches." 
"Who  made  'em?" 
"The  Germans." 

Camouflage 

Farmer:  "See  here,  boy,  what  yer 
doin'  up  that  tree?" 

Boy:  "One  of  your  pears  fell  oft  the 
tree,  an'  I'm  trying  to  put  it  back." — Ex. 

Up  in  the  Air 

Mandy:  "Rastus,  you-all  knows  dat 
yo  remind  me  of  dem  dere  flyin'  ma- 
chines?" 

Rastus:     "No,  Mandy,  how's  dat?" 
Mandy:     "Why,  becays  youse  no  good 
on  earth." 

Too  Transparent 

It  was  the  first  vaudeville  performance 
the  old  colored  lady  had  ever  seen,  and 
she  was  particularly  excited  over  the 
marvelous  feats  of  the  magician.  But 
when  he  covered  a  newspaper  with  a 
heavy  flannel  cloth  and  read  the  print 
through  it,  she  grew  a  little  nervous. 
He  then  doubled  the  cloth  and  again  read 
the  letters  accurately. 

This  was  more  than  she  could  stand, 
and  rising  in  her  seat,  she  said: 

"I'm  goin'  home.  This  ain't  no  place 
for  a  lady  in  a  thin  calico  dress!" 

Nobody   Home 

A  certain  naval  ofBcer  was  very  pomp- 
ous and  conceited  when  ,on  duty.  One. 
day  when  he  was  oflicer  of  the  watch 
and  he  could  not,  as  usual,  find  anything 
of  consequence  to  grumble  about,  he  at- 
tempted to  vent  his  spite  on  one  of  the 
stokers  of  the  vessel,  who  was  in  the 
engine  room  on  duty. 

Going  to  the  speaking  tube  the  officer 
yelled,  "Is  there  a  blithering  idiot  at  the 
end  of  this  tube?" 

The  reply  came  quick  and  startling, 
"Not  at  this  end,  sir!" 


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1918 — Spring  and  Summer  Price  List — 1918 
This    list    cancels    all    previous    quotations. 

11a  Light    weight,    unbleached    cotton *1.20 

12a  Lig-ht  weight,  bleached  cotton 1.25 

13a  Medium  weight,  unbleached  cotton 1.50 

14a  Medium  weight,  bleached  cotton l.BO 

lla  Heavy  weight,  unbleached  cotton 2.00 

16a  Heavy    weight,    bleached   cotton 2.00 

18a  Lisle,   mercerized,   medium  weight 2.65 

19a  Medium   weight,   part  wool 2.50 

20a   40%  wool,   medium    weight 3.20 

21a  Plain   spun   worsted 3.75 

22a  All   wool,   heavy  weight 5.26 

Postage    extra.      Average    shipping   wt.,    20    ozs. 

Garments    marked    for    20c    per   pair 

We   win    make   Garments    Trltli   double    back   for 

25c  extra 

Sizes:     Breast,    34-44;    length,    54-64.      Larger 
sizes,  25c  extra. 

BILLINGS    IMBRCANTIIiS:    ASSOCIATION 
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Marvelous  Growth  of  the  Inter- Mountain  Life  Insurance  Co. 

BEGAN  BUSINESS  AUGUST  1st,  1911 

fear  Ending         Insurance  in  Force 

JANUARY    1.1912.    $512.000  00 

JANUARY   1,  1913,  $1,556,000.00 

JANUARY  1.  1914,  $4,006,811.00 

JANUARY  1,1915,  $5,076,950.00 

JANUARY    1,  1916,   $5,381,502.00 

JANUARY  1,  1917,  $6,357,403.00 

JANUARY  1,1918,  $7,361,242.00 

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